The issue of freedom is important to a lot of us. Newbies are not aware of
this and are generally looking for a replacement for various other reasons.
We need to make sure that those newbies learn about the four freedoms because
without them, RH, MDK, SUSE, and the rest could just become the next MS or
Adobe.
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:48, you wrote:
> I personally would choose RH. They're well known in the IT world (as
> far as Linux goes) and have been very faithful to uphold Open
> Source/Free Software. Mandrake has done so in the past, but the
> recently released non-free software to boost their profitability. SuSe
> is a member of United Linux which has tried to close off GPL'd software
> with NDAs and it's sole purpose seems to be to compete with RH. If the
> free software issues don't matter to you then I guess this isn't much
> help, but if they do, RH is a great choice. And don't close off Debian
> as an option ;)
> Harold
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Jim
Freedom is worth protecting
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