Hi there, I usually stay away from these types of discusion but I thought I had better step in on this one and provide some possible solutions.
Most people seem to want to be able to get hold of the the non-free software however not everyone has access to a connection which is fast or reliable. Like me I prefer to by a CD every now and again and update my system via a CD. I also see the point of Debian in which they only want to put free software on there CD. One solution suggested by someone would be to start a commercial release of Debian. I don't think that that is a very economic way of doing things. What I do suggest is producing another CD in which we get the authors of the software to allows there package to packaged onto a "shareware" type CD. As the authors of the packages themselfs gave permision to package there software on the CD there would be no legal problems with the CD. It will also allow there software to be distubuted on a wider base. This second CD could then be sold as an extra package or it could be bundled together in a CD pack with Debian. This CD could then also allow commercial companys to place trial or BETA software for Linux on it promoting commercial support for Linux. These are some brief ideas that I have. If anyone feels that this is a good idea please contact me and I will help in every way. At the present point I don't have the equipment to implement things like this. Cheers, -- Robert Moody Sysop of Programmer's Test BBS. Running well on Debian ver 1.3 Kernel 2.0.27 http://www.zsd.co.za/~ptest/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page +27 (0)82 3070225 Fax : +27 (0)21 725317 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
