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Lindows and M$ are at it Again
SAJChurchey:
This just in: Michael Robertson's reply to Gates:
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=72
Stick it to 'em Mikey.
flap:
I think you've misunderstood what I'm saying:
quote:Free software is the idea that the source code must be open and that anybody can obtain it and modify it to their needs/wants. That doesn't mean you can't charge for it.
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Exactly, free software is software you can modify, redistribute and sell/re-sell. You can't do that with Yast (the licence doesn't permit it) so it's not free software. I wasn't criticising Suse for selling their software, I was criticising them for distributing Non-Free (as in freedom) software.
Also, the title of your page "Join the Open Source Movement-Support Free Software" suggests you don't realise that Open Source and Free Software are not the same thing. Read the link in my sig.
[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]
mc0282:
i give a shit, what you people hate lindows?, i don't understand now we have a company has BALLS to go against microsoft showing the world how greedy this company is, now i am reading "i hate lindows" or" lindows sucks" come on people. be happy at least microsoft is losing there grip on the market.. we might see different flavors in the future.. oh you just want old window controlling the market. i be honest i don't just want linux every freakin box, i want different flavors , like i said before..
geez
SAJChurchey:
quote:
the title of your page "Join the Open Source
Movement-Support Free Software" suggests you don't realise that Open Source and Free Software are not the same thing.
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Sorry, that you misread, but that's exactly what I meant. I was using them as synonyms so that people would realize that those two terms are used for the same thing. I'm pretty sure that there is an adquate explanation of what "free software" is in the actual reading.
quote:
we have a company has BALLS to go against microsoft showing the world how greedy this company
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Actually, Lindows doesn't exactly have "BALLS," Michael Robertson just has a lot of money to throw around slapping M$ in the face. Remember the XBox hacking contest he funded. It was more or less there just to piss M$ off. Lindows is not altruistic at all, they're just as greedy as M$ w/ wanting to own everything, including open source software. Which as I said earlier, the reason they dropped their WINE development was b/c they couldn't own it and make significant figures off of it. It wasn't profitable to them. Open-source is NOT about corporate ownership, and any company looking to enter the distribution business should realize that. Open source is not about profits. it's about making quality software through an open community.
Therefore, I think the ideology that Lindows started on was bad. Just b/c they go up against M$ b/c they have money, doesn't make them a good corporation to take it's place (as if they ever would).
flap:
quote:I was using them as synonyms so that people would realize that those two terms are used for the same thing.
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Does that mean you believe they are synonymous, or that you're pointing to the fact that the two terms are often incorrectly used to refer to the same thing?
[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]
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