Posted by: cornstalk
on November 14, 2003 10:27 PM
What is your point, that you refuse to use anything not GPL'd, or that you refuse to spend a dime for the software you use?
Personally, while I think that free-as-in-freedom software is a very good thing, I don't think that I contaminate myself in some way by using stuff not GPL'd. Good heavens, I run copyrighted chess software on windows 98 on win4lin -- that's non-GPL to the third power! But until somebody writes some really good chess software under the GPL, I have no choice. Nor, by the way, would I sacrifice one teensy bit of functionality just so that I could use something GPL'd (I might make some sacrifice so as not to have to fool around with win4lin, however). So what do I care whether YAST or some other component of my SuSE setup is GPL'd???
As for the dime, I prefer to lay out $89 or thereabouts for a SuSE Pro box set, with its excellent books and its very convenient set of CD's. Even if I could download all of SuSE 9 and burn it onto CDs (I'm not sure that SuSE lets anyone do that), it really would be more trouble than my time is worth, and I still would not have the books! SuSE is in business to make money, you know? So I don't see why anyone should begrudge them their dime for the very excellent product that they deliver.
If your time is considerably less valuable to you than mine is to me, or if you don't have a dime, well, I understand. But even then, I'll bet you can find a SuSE 7.3 or 8.1 box set around somewhere for cheap. Ask your friends, or look on ebay.
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Posted by: cornstalk on November 14, 2003 10:27 PMPersonally, while I think that free-as-in-freedom software is a very good thing, I don't think that I contaminate myself in some way by using stuff not GPL'd. Good heavens, I run copyrighted chess software on windows 98 on win4lin -- that's non-GPL to the third power! But until somebody writes some really good chess software under the GPL, I have no choice. Nor, by the way, would I sacrifice one teensy bit of functionality just so that I could use something GPL'd (I might make some sacrifice so as not to have to fool around with win4lin, however). So what do I care whether YAST or some other component of my SuSE setup is GPL'd???
As for the dime, I prefer to lay out $89 or thereabouts for a SuSE Pro box set, with its excellent books and its very convenient set of CD's. Even if I could download all of SuSE 9 and burn it onto CDs (I'm not sure that SuSE lets anyone do that), it really would be more trouble than my time is worth, and I still would not have the books! SuSE is in business to make money, you know? So I don't see why anyone should begrudge them their dime for the very excellent product that they deliver.
If your time is considerably less valuable to you than mine is to me, or if you don't have a dime, well, I understand. But even then, I'll bet you can find a SuSE 7.3 or 8.1 box set around somewhere for cheap. Ask your friends, or look on ebay.
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