[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >"Simmons-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would >>need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word >>processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any >>development or performing any major alterations to the debian distribution. >>My question then is do you think that I have any need for purchasing the >>source cds along with the main cds? > >Chances are you won't need them often, at least. Source can be useful >for finding out why a package behaves in a certain way, more than just >development and making changes; however, if you need that, you can >always download the source code from the Debian FTP servers.
Oh, I should point out that the other half of why we distribute source code is because the licenses on a large proportion of free software require us to do so. It's not necessarily useful to everybody, but it's useful to enough people to be worthwhile. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
