[CLUE-Tech] GPL loopholes

[Glen Newell]

I have to concur with Zonker and Kirk. I have, for a long time, benefitted
from  the free beer that Linux provides ( not making money , but increasing
my skill and value as a technician, as well as being entertained). Recently
( and briefly- ) I found that I could make a contribution or two, and did,
and I feel that much better about it. And I ALWAYS pay favors forward as far
as advice is concerned, as well. This is what I believe the spirit of Open
Source and Linux are about. Noone's required, but if you can , you should,
because that's how it works- the only way, in fact.

Glen

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:11:20PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> > And it would be the "right thing to do" for Linux users to ante up a few
> > bucks for the distros they use. Sadly, many don't because they don't
> > HAVE to do it.
>
> I didn't want to jump into this discussion, since it seems to be moving
> on very nicely without me, but I've been itching for someone to bring
> this point up.  Thanks Zonker.
>
> A friend of mine works at a big company (healthcare, very profitable
> company) who shall go nameless.  They run about 15 RH boxes in production.
> Anyone that's worked with Red Hat Network knows that your first machine
> per account is free.  Additional support contracts are $60/machine/year.
> To avoid paying the support contract, they have 15 different Red
> Hat Network accounts.  This is pathetic, and does more to harm
> free/open-source software than it helps.
>
> I see a lot of people complaining about companies violating the GPL (most
> of which turn out to be untrue).  I wish more people would complain about
> the end-users.  If you're a student, I can see going free-as-in-beer.
> But if you've got a paying job, or if you're making money off free
> software, you need to be kicking a little back in.  The revolution doesn't
> run by the grace of St. IGNUcious alone, it needs a little bread too. :)
>
> -k
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