From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: BBS Project -- Linux? Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 04:25:58 GMT
In article <9303132002.AA14564@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>I like Linux very much. When the software is done, I am going to run it
>under Linux on MY box. But if the Linux community is not ready to accept
>commercial software written for Linux, I am afraid I am going to have to
>port it to some dog like SCO to sell it. I don't want to have to do this,
>but this is a large project being worked on by several people, and I am
>afraid that I have sunk too much money into it to release it for nothing.
Stand up to them! You have the *RIGHT* to decide how much to charge for your
work.
It's like mother Theresa demanding that everybody quit their jobs and feed
the poor. Just because SOME people want to (thank goodness) write linux
and linux apps for free doesn't mean everyone should be forced to.