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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!ichaos!jlaiho
- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:14:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzF44A.CL0@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- References: <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >Can Linux go on forever without some commercial support? I mean,
- As far as I know anyone is free to offer commercial support for Linux.
- I think the moral/ethical questions about offering commercial support
- to a free product have already been discussed, so no flames about this, please.
- If, however you can prove that commercial support for linux is illegal/against
- some rules/license agreements/whatever, please do followup.
-
- >implementation. Is there some way that a useful remuneration path
- >can be arranged. E.g. could universities be site-licensed, thereby
- I suppose not..
-
- >gaining the right to have attention paid to their bugs and config-
- >uration problems, and to receive regular updates?
- I think this whould eventually lead to the point that these "paying customers"
- state what should be incorporated with Linux and what should not. And farewell
- to the free development.
-
- ..Wolf
-