From: lintux_doesnt_like AT spam DOT lintux DOT cx (Wilmer van der Gaast) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: MICROSOFT has Bought Over Linus Torvalds!! Date: 2 Apr 2000 09:48:32 GMT Organization: WorldOnline - The Internet Communication Company Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 16 DOT 20000401235914 DOT 116fcc3e AT mail DOT cybercable DOT fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: vp177-180.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 954670385 7227 195.241.177.180 (2 Apr 2000 10:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT worldonline DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Apr 2000 10:13:05 GMT X-Info: Spamming is uncool, annoying, and not useful. Please stop doing it. User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Bar qnl, Eboreg Y. znqr gur sbyybjvat jbeqf nccrne ba bhe fperraf: > Linux is not free at all, or i don't know what's free mean. > > At RedHat web site, personnal edition is 30$, Deluxe is 80$ and pro is 180$ > You shouldn't use Red Hat, you should try Debian or Slackware. > If you say that we can download it, you are almost right about the free, but > here why isn't free. > How many $ did you pay for internet by month. > I pay one dollarcent for every minute, at night/weekend. For cable, most people in the Netherlands pay about 45 dollars a month, but then they can do more than just downloading ISO's > How many hours you have download Linux. > Well, on cable accounts, you can download it in two hours. Or less. On phone internet, it's quite expensive, yes... > Make some math, and you see that the result isn't 0$. > Free as in free speech, not as in free beer. > And if you get the ISO file, it's worst than anything else, how many $ did > your CD-Burner cost? > I didn't buy my CD burner only to burn Linux CD's. > How many CD were scrap while testing if the burner ( and app. ) work OK. > None. I use Linux cdrecord. Not exaggerating. Lately I wasted one CD with that Windoze program that came with my CD burner. > How many time did you lost by downloading & burning the OS. > Linux can burn CD's while I'm surfing/programming/anything. I tried the same under Windoze, but it was impossible. > So, i think isn't free at all. > You say it's free cause you may get it without any charge, you can change it > / give it / make copy of it etc... > > BTW, windows is not as good as Linux, i know that and it's going to be this > way a long time. I dislike windows, isn't the kind of OS i like, but i can't > put Linux on my computer, cause i'm the only one here at home who know how > computer work, and windows is enough hard for them. If i have Linux on my > system, i'll have to be by their side everytime. > Some games are not ported on Linux, Tomb Raider, Sims, FF7, Viper Racing, > Commandos, and the list is very long. > Some companies should start develop games over Linux. > Why don't you put Linux _and_ Windoze on your system??? -- | Wilmer van der Gaast | Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz | server: up 12+13:07 | lintux at lintux.cx | set me me as your signature | syscon: up 0:37 | http://www.lintux.cx/ | and help me spread :) | kumara: down -- Nonsense generated by nio2f, inspired by your text: abou almost the fre all edhat an delux i don if you say is are at at