[wellylug] Linux as selling point.
Pete Black
pete at marchingcubes.com
Tue Aug 9 08:29:42 NZST 2005
So, for example, if I buy a CD with Mandrake Linux on it from Dick
Smith, I can demand that DSE furnish me with source code for every
package on the CD?
They can't simply point me at a Mandrake mirror and say 'there you go'?
-Pete
On 9/08/2005, at 12:25 AM, David Antliff wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>>> It's about professional courtesy really. That is why the GPL license
>>> is
>>> not the same as the Public Domain.
> [snip good stuff]
>> That's why it's not public domain.
>
> Err, yes, of course. Re-reading it I see that I actually stated the
> reason was due to professional courtesy, which isn't what I was trying
> to say, but you reinforced my point anyway.
>
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> David.
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