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Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves
From: Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:52:43 -0600
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"James O. Harms" wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> >
> > I refuse to support RedHat software...  $40 to support Linux seems
> > backwards, since Linux's philosophy is based entirely on FREE software.
> >
> 
> The Linux philosophy is FREE as in THINKING, and is not limited to free
> as in beer.  Free beer is nice, but FREE THINKING is ultimately more
> important, it seems to me.

Well said...

If you really wished to not supprot RedHat in any way, you would have to
be sure not to buy any hardware from Intel, Compaq, HP and the like... 
Sorta impossible in this day and age.

I'm more worried about M$ and Intel's effect on Linux than Red Hat's.

-= Bob =-
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