[wplug] COLLABORATION AS DISTRIBUTED CAPITALISM?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September bgtrio at yahoo.com assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| What is needed is a free software reseller and guarantor.  Basically an 
| organization that takes free software and offers some warranty protection 
| and limited support.  As you probably know, GPL software offers no 
| warranty but allows others to offer a warranty for the software.

well i believe redhat does this. so does ibm with their eservers. i'm sure
suse and other vendors offer similar support.

| It wouldn't really be that hard to offer the EXACT SAME warranty and 
| support offered for Microsoft Windows out of the box and 
| to advertise such, since they don't really offer very much.  If such an 
| organization existed they could allay the fears of management types and 
| provide them with the purchased product security blanket they so 
| desperately crave.

no, its not hard to offer the exact same warranty that microsoft offers out
of the box. in fact it's really easy. microsoft offers no support out of
the box, and they also offer no warranty. it's all in that eula you agreed
to. you read it right?


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