[wplug] suse

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Wed Feb 5 12:03:36 EST 2003


Russ Schneider wrote:
> Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 
>  > If you _need_ support that's fine, but choosing a distro based on
>  > price is not good reasoning.  It's Linux - it's Free.
> 
> Well, from what I understand, the fact that Mandrake, RH, SuSE, etc.
> release free downloads of their distros is not required under GPL or
> any other agreement.  Each company is within it's rights not to
> release free ISO's.
	Yes  - but all _have_ to have the sources posted somewhere

> The fact that that do, makes people like me VERY happy and
>   appreciative. Some people are appreciative enough to buy the
> software as to support the company.
	Yes, it's a good thing to show support.
	However, I'd argue that thinking a company can survive on $80 boxes
of Linux is not likely - look at Mandrake and Turbo and Storm.

Don



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