Re: [Sheflug] Re: Hypercube Systems

["David Bottrill" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barrie Bremner said:

> Debian aside, most distros are polished affairs which are built by
> commercial entities, and are worth paying for, especially when
> compared to something like Windows at £100 or more.
>
> Baz.
>

I agree entirely, for this reason I purchase every copy of SuSE (my distro
of choice) as it is released as I believe that as I'm not a software
developer and can't contribute to application development at least by
supporting a distro (that I feel is making a valuable contribution to
opensource solutions) I am making am contibuting in a small way.

I have to problem with RedHat SuSE etc. making money out of opensource as
these guys are also putting so much back. I appreciate that opensource is
far more that the distros it is the thousands of guys all around the world
who are writing the apps, the linux kernel etc. for nothing more than the
fun of it and the belief in the opensource philosphy.

Keep up the good work guys and I will keep buying distros.

-- 
David Bottrill

david [at] bottrill.org
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