From: ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) Subject: Re: Linux commercial use (was Re: BBS Project -- Linux?) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 15:28:40 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>certainly do), actually flaming somebody over trying to make some money
>is silly: it does not limit you in any way, and only gives you more
>options to choose from. If you don't want to pay for your software,
>fine, but there are actually people out there that find it convenient to
>be able to buy programs that work and are supported.
That's exactly my opinion !!!
>Yggdrasil etc are doing. And while the other linux kernel developers
>have been "forced" to use the GPL due to my decision, I haven't actually
>heard any complaints from anybody who has worked on major parts of the
>kernel.
Theres only one problem I see:
Certain good hardware like Intelligent Multiport Serial Cards or several
Cache-Controllers (No flame war about cache-controllers,please) will
maybe not available for Linux-Users because Hardware-Suppliers might not
want to make their hardware/software know-how public.
For me it's a problem:
I would like to drive a Multiport Mailbox with Linux, but: I don't know
yet about multiport-serial drivers for Linux.
Ciao
Christoph