[wellylug] Installfest Planning

[Rob Giltrap]

> Certainly the GPL allows this, but I still feel that it's morally wrong.
> 
> So wow.. they've made some icons and backgrounds.  Great.  Oh, and
> you can email them questions.  Excellent.  That's US$40 worth.
> </sarcasm>
> 
> > plus add-on Paks. Look at Mandrake, they have filed
> > for bankruptcy because their users never supported them. People need to get
> > their heads out of the sand and get with the real world. If you need / want
> > a free distro with no commercial support, look elsewhere.
> 
> Mandrake try to go commercial selling a free product, they go under.  Same
> deal.  I don't think all that much of Mandrake either.
> 
I see nothing morally wrong in providing goods and services to consumers at a
price they are willing to pay in an free & open market.

RedHat have just turned a nice profit this quarter out of doing just that.