Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:43:12 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: scrappy@hub.org, mallison@konnections.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <27655.861406992@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:37:48 EDT." <199704182337.TAA16808@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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> > > What I'm more suggesting (and with all the talk of 'Commercial > >Projects' going on in the lists, this may be in the works...) is a > >CD that I could purchase from Walnut Creek, put into a cdrom at the > >office and install instead of Windows95 for 'that new guys machine' > >which, altho *not* Windows, would have a comfortable feel to it...and > >a pretty consistent one regardless of how many different ppl did the > >install process. > > One of my favourite aspects of Walnut Creek is the assurance that I > could always get source to the programs. Is this no longer true? Well, not if they're commercial, but then you don't have to buy any of the commercial software + FreeBSD bundles if this kind of thing bothers you. :-) The "base line" product will remain the same full-source thing it always was (though I should note that much of what's in the "commerce" distribution has always been binary-only and nobody's complained). Expecting any and all FreeBSD commercial software vendors to distribute sources for their products just so that we could say "yes, full sources for EVERYTHING!" would be more than a little silly. Jordan
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