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CPS - On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:09:36 GMT, Bob Ward wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 23:31:01 GMT, Brian Miller wrote:software without reasonable return policies. My advice to Linux usersis to download it online, as it's freely available; I simply wanted thelatest greatest version in a more conveniently available format. Of course, that "latest and greatest version" grew on a treeYes, a CVS tree. somewhere, totally untouched by human hands, so Red Hat is totally outWell, one could say that human hands don't touch it.Not a whole lot of it was from RedHat, at least at the kernel level. of line wanting to charge you for it, right?Well, no, RedHat is a services company. They add occasional featuresto things and have little helper applications, but their businessmodel is to provide support on otherwise free applications.They charge for service.In this fellow's case, he doesn't feel like he got what he paid for,and may as well have downloaded the Fedora ISOs from RedHat's site.Then at least he'd only have paid a little for what didn't work (costof CDs, time, ...). (Since he paid Fry's, I still contend that Fry'sis responsible either to see that the software is made to work orfor some reasonable refund, but that's Fry's issue.)You can't pirate free software, incidentally. (And no, distros arenot necessarily free, but most of the software is - just like thefreeware/shareware CDs they used to sell at WalMart. Of course, ifall the software is free, then the distro is as well, at least inthe case of GPL and most BSD licenses, and RedHat - at least in RH9 -fell into this category.)-TC--swap triangle and cannedmeat to reply
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