Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Les]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:03 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-05-17, 17:08 GMT, Ric Moore wrote:
> > It could happen that there are users that have no business 
> > messing with anything and we'd all be properly grateful that 
> > they don't. <g> But a "should" puts the onus of active 
> > participation on them and then they do. Which results in 
> > a batch of emails to the list to remedy a blown up system.  
> > THEN, after much grief for everyone, they leave to freshly
> > install Ubuntu or SuSe and claim it is SO much better, as it "works",
> > out of the box. Sure it does, they haven't screwed with it yet.
> 
> I still think they SHOULD help, but note that I have put there 
> money as an option how to help. As one of my American friends 
> said ``With the invention of money, phrase `Thank you' lost its 
> meaning.'' ;-)
> 
> > Plus, a newbie needs to have the space to actually use and 
> > become familiar with Linux, before anyone can expect them to 
> > actually be grateful for anything and appreciate it. I think it 
> > would be better to leave the moral "shoulds" at the door. So, 
> > Mauriat might have been asking "Must I?" in a completely 
> > different light, as I have outlined. The basic "morality play" 
> > of the Linux Religion becomes more apparent with exposure and 
> > use. :)
> 
> Of course, and I forgot that this is the list where even not-Red 
> Hat employess and somebody else than hard-code Linux geeks could 
> happen. No, I mean there is of course almost unlimited tolerance 
> for people to learn, and yes this whole stuff is free and there 
> are really no strings attached. Visible or invisible. Just go, 
> use it and have a fun.
> 
> However, there is somewhere in the back of my mind that ``Freely 
> you have received, freely give.'' (Matthew 10:8) I mean, I don't 
> except from anybody to help, they are under no obligation 
> whatsoever (neither legal nor moral) to do anything, but for me 
> this verse was one of the reasons why I spend so much time on 
> helping Linux community in past ten years.
> 
> Just my 0.02 CZK ;-)
> 
> Matej

And we just thought you liked to see your name in the mail archive ;-o
>   

    I have not yet added to Linux.  I am still a noob, but coming along.
I expect that by the end of the year I may be able to add to the great
experiment that is no longer an experiment.  

    One thing I am still not clear about.... If someone (like me)
creates some whooptidoo program that does something wonderful, can
he/she sell that program commercially?  Or is that code automatically
under GPL because it is designed on Linux?  Curiosity more than any real
project behind the question.

Regards,
Les Howell
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