From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 16:49:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB37016A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:49:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544F043D55 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:49:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 83C561C0008F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5D6CB1C00087 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050223164955383.5D6CB1C00087@mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1393306385.20050223174955@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050223104134.56e8e73b@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050223104134.56e8e73b@jacob.6texans.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:49:56 -0000 Jacob S writes: > You must be looking at a different Linux community than the one I'm > familiar with. I thought boxed sets of Linux had gone out of retail > stores years ago. I bought a copy of Mandrake Linux in a retail store yesterday. I saw SuSE in the store, too. Computer stores have a wider choice. > I'm having too much fun with downloading versions and upgrading over > the internet - yes, for free. That says a lot about the type of user you are. > Linspire and Redhat tend to be Windows-like, in hiding their free > releases or not releasing them until the next version comes out, etc., > but they're generally considered the exception in the Linux community. I've looked at a fair number of Linux Web sites over the past few days. Almost all of them seemed to be trying to sell something. It was often extremely hard to find links pointing to downloadable free versions of anything. > I understand there's some competition between FreeBSD and Linux, but > Linux doesn't have to be considered evil just because they're not > FreeBSD fans. It's not evil to sell software. But it's not free software, either. -- Anthony