Re: KDE v. Gnome

Article View: uk.comp.os.linux

Article #1725

#1725

From: Abigail
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

26 lines
2051 bytes

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.

I kind of agree with him. Good documentation should come with a program.
But that, in my opinion, doesn't mean that ORA hurts the cause of free
software by selling books.



Abigail

Technical Details

Message-ID: <6upgm4$9oo$1@client3.news.psi.net>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

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>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

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: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174
X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public
X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174
X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
Message-ID: <6upgm4$9oo$1@client3.news.psi.net>
X-Deja-AN: 395841959
X-PGP-Fingerprint: 76 2E 82 7A 69 93 5F 97  AE 01 80 75 67 F3 45 D0
References: <6snt2s$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>
X-Date: MDCCCLV 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

Reply to Parent Message