Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:48:45 GMT From: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> To: des@des.no, miguel@anjos.strangled.net Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Mall : to hell Message-ID: <200602242148.k1OLmjBn006299@compaq.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <86d5hco3vs.fsf@xps.des.no>
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> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) > To: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> > Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, dan@langille.org > Subject: Re: BSD Mall : to hell > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:15:03 +0100 > > Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > > The CD packing business funded FreeBSD development for years before > > > the Internet killed it. > > [...] > > I keep my subscription since 1995, even though it's not ecological. > > You seem to confirm my belief that the money I pay for my > > subscription goes to FreeBSD development. I'm relieved. > > It depends where you buy it. Well, this really is my point. It depends. On Debian website there's a wordwide list of CD sellers. On this list, there's only one seller listed for Portugal. Do you think that there's only one place in Portugal that sells Debian CDs? I ask for apology to all those that felt offended with my statement and I really didn't mean wherever. But there are many cases where I don't think it is very honest. There's a legal principle which forbids enrichment without cause. And given the price of some distributions, I really hope their contributions to open source development justifies. Anyway, my subscription was from Walnut Creek CD-ROM, and if I recall, was automatically upgraded to FreeBSD Mall... It's from FreeBSD Mall now and I wish it was more useful to me. If anyone has any specific data like the amount of revenues that really goes to FreeBSD development, I would really be interested in knowing it. Miguel
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