Le 09/07/2003 21:35, « Robert P. J. Day » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Stephen Smith wrote: > >> I couldn't have said it better! Look at what the prices are for M$ >> software adn you don't see people running around complaining - they just >> go to the store and buy it! Damn! The OS is free whatelse do you want? > > i've felt this way for a while. this attitude that, if you use linux, > everything should be open source and free is a good way to drive away > potential application developers. if they figure no one's willing to > shell out some cash for a good app, why would they want to get involved? *** How is that? Have you ever counted the amount of people working on the Kernel? What about all the Sourceforge projects? The KDE team? The Gnome team? The OO team? The GIMP team? What about all the binaries on you Linux OS? Did you ever count them? You think "ls", "useradd", "syslogd" fell of a tree? The billion othere teams I forgot to mention? Do you re read your mails before sending them? -- Cheers, Zoran. Windows software isn't released, it's allowed to escape. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
