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Tell me, what's the difference between open source and commercial software?
If you'd have asked me not long ago, I'd say that there's a world of difference between the two, and that they both sat at opposite ends of the software spectrum. "Isn't it BAD," I thought, "to pay for software?"
So I rolled my own and offer it here for community use. I was delaying publishing because it is not finished (there are TODOs in the code) but it works well enough and may never be finished so better...
i have download some software of linux,,,,i want to install it manaually using terminal,,,,,,,,,i dont want to use yum or add/remove software to install pakages..
i have a child. she is one month old. so i am looking for a desktop education linux for my daughter. i search in the internet. i find like opensuse edulife, edubuntu, and sabily. so i want to try one by one. i will choose one of them. yesterday, i have installed sabily. now, i want to download opensuse edulife.
I recently came across something called Linux XP, which is a shareware distribution, which
is designed to look like Windows XP
will "deactivate" itself in 30 days if a serial number is not purchased.
is based on Fedora.
My question is this - how is it ethical to take something from the community, and sell it for a price to unsuspecting customers? Surely somebody who's new to Linux is not supposed to know any better, and seeing "XP" in the title and the familiar...
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