From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 22 11:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABC937B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0MJjXO08451; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:45:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <023d01c1a37d$5bd59cd0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Julian Peterson" Cc: "FreeBSD Newbies" References: <021601c1a372$c4c79d20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200201221907.g0MJ7D939739@atkielski.com> Subject: Re: OH MY GOD Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:45:30 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian writes: > You can still download *everything* (as iso > images if you wish) that comes with RH Pro from > their website. For the moment, perhaps. But wait and see. Red Hat is not going to be the first exception to the rule in the history of capitalism. As they get greedier, the idea of giving _anything_ away will seem more and more like giving away the goose that lays the golden eggs, and little by little, it will all become proprietary, one way or another. > The method they choose is through support > and services, and that seems to be working > for them thus far. Until they want more money, at least. > err, FreeBSD is just like a "distribution", 'cept > there's only one to choose from. Good! > If you don't like the idea of commercial distributions, > there's Debian for example. I'll just take FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message