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Jason Clifford Wrote:
> Companies that provide commercial solutions which run on free software
> are doing nothing wrong. They are not in breach of the GPL or any other
> licence.
> 
> Their support is one of the factors that will lead many more people to
> use Linux and Open Source/Free software.
> 
> The simple truth here is that most people do NOT use a computer simply
> to play with a nice OS. They use it as a tool to run their prefered
> applications many of which are commercial.

Exactly!
I spend all day at work in the Win95 environment (64MB on a P233 with
several GB of HD) writing code with VFP5.0a on a Novell 4.x network. 
Friday afternoon, for example, my workstation crashed twice.  I have to
put up with that at work.  I have passed out CD's with RH5.0 on them
and  convinced the IS support staff to install a RH 5.1 on a 486 and
stick it on the net. That was on August 9th, and it hasn't crashed yet,
even though we've had the NT server go down, the mainframe go down
twice, and Novell has barfed a lung on a couple of servers.  Maybe we'll
replace the NT server with Linux so our version control software won't
run so  slowly.  I gave the head of pgmming my book on "Learning Linux
in 24 hrs", along with it's copy of RH5.0.  And, several IS support
people and programmers have asked If I would burn a copy of RH 5.1 for
them.  I will.  We are all tired of the unstability and slow speed.
At home, I don't have to take that crap.  My Win95 crashed on May 8th
and forced a complete reinstall on my HD.  I started looking for an
alternative OS.  I had looked at Linux back in 1994 (or so) and found it
limited.  But, after browsing the "Learn Linux in 24 hours" book in the
book store I decided to give it a try.  Since May 9th Linux has been my
OS of choice.  I have also installed and tried RH 5.1  When the SuSE 5.3
distribution arrived I cleaned my HD and installed it.  What a beauty! 
The KDE 1.0 is BETTER than Win95 or 98.  The KFM is a nice little
browser (say goodbye to Opera 3.2) for quick looks and downloads but I
settled on the Netscape 4.05 communciator that came with SuSE 5.3
because it has a nice email and newsgroup package integrated  together. 
(I used the KDE email and newgroup stuff for several months without
problems, but KFM lacks a little when you hit websites with java scripts
or frames.).  I spend 99+% of my time in SuSE 5.3 and when a good
substitute for Quicken comes out Win95 will be history at my home
office.
Why do I say this?  Because productivity is the name of the game.  I am
an old DOS command liner with the best of them, BUT it is a lot easier
to point and click do some stuff (don't send me lessons on scripts)  
And, that is why I will BUY a copy of NETSCAPE and I will BUY a copy of
StarOffice 5.0, even though I can download them free!  To show my
appreciation for their stance opensource (I know SO 5.0 is not
opensource but it is the best office suite on Linux).  I am even going
to show my support for the Linux kernal group by sending a donation
their way.  How about the rest of you who want to take and take and take
without returning something to the pot?
Jerry