Taken the wrong way rday, what I meant, but did not make clear, is that I was not willing to fork out money on something that I really had not seen, and did not have much info on how it works. I agree with you on what you say though. I have a fast internet connection, and could have quite easily downloaded RH8 for free, and burnt my own installation disks. But I preferred to purchase the software from RH, for the small price of $30 odd dollars, first of all to know that it was all there and going to work, and secondly, for the support I recieve initially. If anything, this is where software writers under linux are going to make their money in the future, by offering support to the people, and primarily the companies who currently are a little hesitant in going the step to linux, as well as the develpoment of future software. But, that said, we also would not like to see anything like the atrocious prices of microsoft, and their binding licences either. Like I said, I would be happy to pay for support of software I use, thus also supporting/giving feedback to the writers of the programs I find useful. Maybe even paying a reasonable price for a manual or the such. regards Greg On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002, Greg wrote: > > > Yeah, thanks guys, > > I looked at crossover, but wasn't that keen on paying. But if the only > > option, I might have to. > > this is, in my opinion, a very worrying trend -- the attitude that, > since one is running linux, one should never expect to pay for > software. > > yes, open source, GPL, free software is a wonderful thing. but if > no one is ever willing to shell out some cash for the occasional > piece of software, what incentive will companies have to *ever* > write software for linux? > > rday > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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