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To: Steve Porter who wrote (108538)	4/29/2000 2:49:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1580037

Steve, > At least microsoft pays the people that make their product better (or bigger). Redhat takes the work of the opensource community, adds a token 'home grown' app or 2 and charges $79.95... And people have the nerve to ask why I don't spend my talents making linux better in some way... > That's GNU and other open licenses work. It's not stealing. I haven't read any open source committee complaining about it. Is REDHAD corrupting the open source code to usurp it and make it their own? Is it trying to make the open source obsolete so they can be the sole supplier of LINUX? Will it succeede if it tries to do these things without neither having the clout nor the monopolistic powers behind it? One can get REDHAT Linux set with home grown utilities/sw anywhere from $15 - $100 - depending on which store you get it from. You don't even have to buy one - you can legally install the software from your friend's or neighbor's copy, and on as many computers as you wish (excluding the sw not under the open license agreement.) You pay little bit more when you buy LINUX set including third party software that's not under open license. There are myriad of companies, besides REDHAT publishing the Linux software CDs. If you have the zeal to publish your own CDs and find a way to distribute and sell it in the market, REDHAT won't be able to stop you. With equal access to the code, the success of any given company in the LINUX world is left to what additional value and services they add to the product. In fact, I can copy REDHAT CD (ofcourse, I have to remove the stuff that is not covered under the open license policy) and I can distribute them if I have the time to do it. REDHAT clearly states this in their product documentation. You can even legally publish some of the Linux manuals and can sell them to make any profit you choose to. Goutama

To: Steve Porter who wrote (108538)	4/30/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580037

Steve, Redhat takes the work of the opensource community, adds a token 'home grown' app or 2 and charges $79.95... And people have the nerve to ask why I don't spend my talents making linux better in some way There is that aspect: donating your work for free, while someone while someone is waiting for you to finish, and sell your work for profit. There is another aspect that I resent even more: I have this awful habit of eating daily, feeding my daughter, paying mortgage. If I worked on linux, I would not be able to support these habits. Joe