Re: Linux ISOs

[<indigo196 rochester rr com>]

Keiran:

I am not aware of people not being able to make money off of open source. While Fedora gives away media there are additional services that a disk burning service can provide.

1)  Custom burns that include all the patches to-date for that distro
2)  Faster delivery than the distro's free ordering process

While most will choose to download the .iso themselves, these services help those with meetered connections or those that are still on dial-up.

I truly do not see the conflict with FOSS and companies making money from it.

cprofitt

---- Keiran Smith <affix FedoraProject org> wrote: 
> Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100%
> Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part
> of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Admin <admin whatsmyip org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > I just started a linux 'Download-Burn-Mail' service for downloading ISO's
> > for people. It's not a free service, but its very very cheap, and we get the
> > discs in the mail next-day. So if you are interested in linking to our
> > service, please feel free to do so :-)
> >
> > http://www.whatsmyip.org/osdiscsbymail/
> >
> > And of course, email me if you have any questions or comments about it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
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