Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:27:04 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: And now, the Linux is near... Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20041201122606.05bbd928@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20041201165454.GJ68012@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20041201165454.GJ68012@iconoplex.co.uk>
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They're entitled to do it if they can persuade people that they have added enough value for it to be worth the money. That's part of the BSD philosophy: to allow people to make money from value-added versions of the software. --Brett Glass At 09:54 AM 12/1/2004, Paul Robinson wrote: >... it's time to face, the final curtain. > >Inspired by the 3945634956295425258695 Linux distributions currently on >offer and seeing the relative ease with which DragonFly got off the >ground, it would appear, a few kids are trying to sell Free/DragonFlyBSD >without adding a huge amount: > >http://www.crescentanchor.com/ > >My favourite bit is with the Gold edition you get all those lovely >languages that are simply just too expensive to get hold of for humble >FreeBSD. > >I seem to remember seeing a couple of outfits like this a few years >back. Where did they all go? Did some gullible purchasing officer get >suckered in, order 100 server licenses and the kids ran off with all the >money? > >-- >Paul Robinson > >http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/ >"All I know is I'm not a Marxist" - Karl Marx >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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