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Article #1411Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Abigail
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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Mark Evans (mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk) wrote on MDCCCLIX September MCMXCIII in <URL:news:34r5v6.ci4.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>: ++ Abigail <abigail@fnx.com> wrote: ++ > Dave Blake (dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu) wrote on MDCCCLIV September MCMXCIII ++ > in <URL:news:slrn7106b5.dud.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu>: ++ > ++ Jason Clifford wrote: ++ > ++ >David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes ++ > ++ >>Hell, Red Hat aren't exactly penniless, are they? ++ > ++ ++ > ++ >Exactly. The ONLY way to make money from GPL software is to be the one ++ > ++ >who installs and supports it commercially. ++ > ++ ++ > ++ No, that's not the only way. ++ > ++ ++ > ++ You could sell manuals. Many people buy Redhat's distribution ++ > ++ only to have a manual (and a meager one at that). ++ > ++ ++ > ++ O'Reilly makes a ton of cash from free software as well. ++ ++ > But if you're following RMS, you have to be against that as well. ++ > RMS says that manuals have to be free as well. ++ ++ "Free" or "media cost"? Free. I don't think O'Reilly allows you to redistribute their books. Abigail
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <6vbk8k$dho$4@client3.news.psi.net> X-Deja-AN: 398084339 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 76 2E 82 7A 69 93 5F 97 AE 01 80 75 67 F3 45 D0 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <360fb4c0.25402167@news.demon.co.uk> <RAf*6c-Gn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <CNkG7GAKUAE2EwBj@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <slrn7106b5.dud.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> <6upgm4$9oo$1@client3.news.psi.net> <34r5v6.ci4.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> X-Date: MDCCCLXI September MCMXCIII X-HTTP: http://cthulhu.mandrake.net/%7Eabigail/ X-Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $ Organization: FNX Ltd, Intelligent Risk Management Reply-To: abigail@fnx.com Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss