Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Pot-Smoking Quote of the Day

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 18:30:34 -0500

In message <m0ztKp9-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| > I honestly think that the whole linux community owes a certain
| > respect to redhat. OK, they are, in some way pushing the rights that the
| > GPL offers and making money out of the work of Linux, Alan and all the
|
| Let me correct a common misassumption here. The GPL is about freedom in the
| sense of rights not in the sense of no money. In fact I'd urge everyone
| who gets the chance to make a living or money out of Linux to do so (within
| reason).
+--->8

Yes. And Red Hat puts a fair amount of money back into Linux, paying Alan
and others to develop it and develop for it (see, for example,
http://www.labs.redhat.com) --- how many more people would do Linux stuff if
the need for a paying job didn't take away too much of their time? That's
my main problem at this point --- so it's not as if they're taking the money
and running.

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
     We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.






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