Amen. As a developer (currently) feeding my kids building software for MS platforms, I resisted anything to do with Linux for a long time because I (wrongly) thought that "Free Software" meant "free" as in beer rather than "free" as in speech ( to paraphrase http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ).
Now that I know better, I can't agree more with Patrick's observations below. Hey - some of this stuff IS "rocket science" and developers need to get compensated accordingly, otherwise they'll do their "rocket science" somewhere else. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: RE: Red Hat License? Marcel wrote: ----------------->>>> We deliver PC's with W2000 or RedHat Linux together with our technical equipment. Question: Can we simpy download the RedHatLinux image from the RedHat server, burn the CD's, install it and deliver them with the burned CD's (with a self-created label), without offending against the RedHat License? So we don't need to buy the RedHat packages. ----------------->>>> Why would you want to do this? Why is it that the only answer for some people is paying Microsoft a shipload of money or paying nothing at all? Goodness there is an in-between here. Offer your customers the Personal or Professional RedHat release and have them pay for it. Don't people really understand that we (yes the Linux community) need to support our OS vendors? If we don't then what? Maybe I didn't get enough sleep last night, but this really irritates me. TINSTAAFL! Back when I didn't have money, I did the downloaded thing, but purchased every other release. At my company we purchase what we use, even though we could get it for free. At home I have RH8.0 sitting on a self with every release from RH since 6.2 and I don't always install them. Why? Because I believe in Linux and want to support it. Not only that but, the only way to fight Microsoft is with our wallets. Everything else is hot air. On top of all that, the thing that cinches the deal is support. Your cutting corners so your customers don't get support from RH. This is important. Customers want support and are willing to pay for it. On an early release (I think it was 5.2) I purchase a RedHat Linux Deluxe box set only to find out that it wasn't officially RedHat and I didn't get support with it (and of course this was one of those times that I needed it). That was pretty upsetting. Pay for your software... -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
