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Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update andtransition planning
From: "Kurt Seifried" <listuser () seifried org>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:10:33 -0700
How is this unreasonable you can: a) download the files and do a local or network install b) download the boot floppies and do a network install c) download the files and make your own cd's Providing i386 ISO images would be a HUGE drain bandwidth wise for SuSE and eat into product sales, lose/lose for them, sure, many customers would end up getting a free ride, which is nice for them, but I don't remember the FSF/GPL ever saying this was the point. The point was freedom, not free as in beer. Seems fair to me. I find this culture of expecting things for free to be rather interesting. The "gift culture" of BSD/GPL I understand and participate in, however the outgrowth of this seems to be a "greed culture", case in point people who demand easily printable PDF versions of documents I publish in HTML on my website or seem to expect that I will help them with their homework (no joke). Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://seifried.org/security/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 03)
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- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update andtransition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life updateandtransition planning Kurt Seifried (Nov 03)
- RE: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Shawn McMahon (Nov 04)
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