Brian Fahrlander wrote:
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:11, John McBride wrote:
Bryan Anderson wrote:
From today - MS-free!
sweet...i made the jump awhile ago and have not regretted it.
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fedora 1 is confusing from the "how do i pay" point of view!
For right now, here's how you pay for it: in appreciation and support.
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I already consider myself appreciative and supportive of free software, web search fairly carefully before asking questions, try not to complain, and certainly do not hate any developers.
My point is that until Fedora 1 it was really easy and painless for me to arrange for about $1300 a year to go into Linux, and now there is no simple "three clicks to satisfaction" way to do that.
From my end of things, I can just take the $100 or so that comes from me personally and give it to a project that seems deserving and has a paypal link. I've done that before, but that's kind of problematic for a lot of reasons I won't go into. And forget about getting my employer to dole out $1200 a year to individuals...not gonna happen, ever.
RedHat up2date licenses were a simple way for a company to get money into Linux and now it's gone. I think there is a real monetary loss to the community from that decision, one that can't really be compensated for by directly paying developers or sending them gifts.
