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From: Samuel R. Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: RedHat Support????
>allows RH to continue in this way. A deeply troubling consequence seems to
>me inescapable: this fine list, by facilitating RH's current marketing
>strategy, also undermines the free software concept.
Not at all. You could make a case that it undermines the concept of SELLING
free software, but lists like this one are exactly why free software is a
viable concept.
Couldn't work without mechanisms like this one.
>What I did was return RH and get Caldera (the $55 version). Caldera
>support seems to be substantially better than RH's, and I feel better
>because, paradoxically, the oh-so-profit-minded Caldera advances the free
>software concept.
Which just proves there's more than one concept at work here; this one is
called The Free Market. :-)
Redhat will either provide perceived value in comparison to other
alternatives, or they'll cease to be marketable. Either way, free software
marches on.
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