Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:48 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 04:24 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:01:53AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ask your neighbor, if he would pay USD600 for a barrel of "free
beer".
>>>>
>>> I think you fundamentally miss the entire point of free software here.
>>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> I simply decided not to contribute to software products, which are not
>> freely (cost-free) available nor cost-freely redistributable and to
>> brand them as "non-free".
>>
> I tried to stay away from this flame but... I also can decide to call
> "non-free" software that does not help me getting laid, how is that
> relevant?
>
This rationale contributes to me not to consider RHEL and CentOS, which
is the rationale why I don't consider them to be replacements for a
"Fedora LTS".
Or differently: It doesn't matter what people sell as "free", it matters
what people accept as "free".
I don't accept the earth is round, so it must be flat !
Tim