On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:55:21AM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> Hello Hetz
>
> The wrong thing is that they are getting money for programs that
> volunteers did _FOR FREE_, on their own time.
What is wrong with it? If the volunteers did not want their software
to be used and profited from, they would not have released their code
as free software. The way I see it, and implicitly from their license,
the way these volunteers are seeing it, is that SuSE is actually
helping them in getting their software used more.
> instead of giving the money
> for the volunteers I'm giving it to the company who packed this and made
> some nice setup program ?
Then why won't you send the volunteers some money, too?
Anyhow, a large part of the CD money does go to the projects, through
sponsorships. SuSE is one of the larger sponsors of free software
projects -- off the top of my head, Andreas Archangelli (the Linux VM
hacker), and XFree86 (they sponsored the first Rage128 driver, which
I've used for quite a while, even though I didn't pay SuSE a cent).
> no thanks. they should release the d/l version
> while selling it, imo.
You can buy the CD and place its contents on a web site if you like.
> That's why I prefer to use a non-commercial distro (debian).
Which is also being sold, for various prices. Debian is mostly
distributed by commercial companies for completely commercial reasons.
- Adi Stav
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