discuss: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
Subject:
Re: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
14 Dec 2003 02:28:23 -0000
Message-Id: <200312140228.hBE2SLwx012017@ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
At (time_t)759794114 David Lawyer wrote:
> It is not what GNU/Linux is about. It's about creating a system of
> entirely free software for the benefit of the public and maximization of
> welfare by selling software at its marginal cost (which is just the cost
> of making copies --essentially free).
Say what?
GNU can be described that way; the only generalization one can
make about Linux is that it was originally about Linus scratching
an itch in a very public way. Since then it has become many
things to many people.
-John