And now, the Linux is near...

[Brett Glass]

They're entitled to do it if they can persuade people that they have
added enough value for it to be worth the money. That's part of the
BSD philosophy: to allow people to make money from value-added
versions of the software.

--Brett Glass

At 09:54 AM 12/1/2004, Paul Robinson wrote:
  
>... it's time to face, the final curtain.
>
>Inspired by the 3945634956295425258695 Linux distributions currently on
>offer and seeing the relative ease with which DragonFly got off the
>ground, it would appear, a few kids are trying to sell Free/DragonFlyBSD
>without adding a huge amount:
>
>http://www.crescentanchor.com/
>
>My favourite bit is with the Gold edition you get all those lovely
>languages that are simply just too expensive to get hold of for humble
>FreeBSD.
>
>I seem to remember seeing a couple of outfits like this a few years
>back. Where did they all go? Did some gullible purchasing officer get
>suckered in, order 100 server licenses and the kids ran off with all the
>money?
>
>-- 
>Paul Robinson
>
>http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/ 
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