Re: And now, the Linux is near...

They're entitled to do it if they can persuade people that they have
added enough value for it to be worth the money. That's part of the
BSD philosophy: to allow people to make money from value-added
versions of the software.

--Brett Glass

At 09:54 AM 12/1/2004, Paul Robinson wrote:
  
>... it's time to face, the final curtain.
>
>Inspired by the 3945634956295425258695 Linux distributions currently on
>offer and seeing the relative ease with which DragonFly got off the
>ground, it would appear, a few kids are trying to sell Free/DragonFlyBSD
>without adding a huge amount:
>
>http://www.crescentanchor.com/
>
>My favourite bit is with the Gold edition you get all those lovely
>languages that are simply just too expensive to get hold of for humble
>FreeBSD.
>
>I seem to remember seeing a couple of outfits like this a few years
>back. Where did they all go? Did some gullible purchasing officer get
>suckered in, order 100 server licenses and the kids ran off with all the
>money?
>
>-- 
>Paul Robinson
>
>http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/ 
>"All I know is I'm not a Marxist" - Karl Marx
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