Guest M1Sports20 Posted December 2, 2004 Posted December 2, 2004 Since Linspire (lindows) is based off of linux how can they charge for it, under the GPL isn't it suppose to remain free since they used code from the linux project? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Posted December 2, 2004 Posted December 2, 2004 Im preaty sure Red Hat and some others you gotta pay for too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 Since Linspire (lindows) is based off of linux how can they charge for it, under the GPL isn't it suppose to remain free since they used code from the linux project? They can charge for any of their ... extra tools they have written for their distrobution and what not? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest M1Sports20 Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 but with redhat or other distributions you can still download the part based on GPL, the exteral services are optional, lindows doesn't seem to be this way. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 Probly because they know it wouldn't be particullalalalay unique if it wasn't for their extras or something Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezza Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 it's probabally cos they've added non open source bits to to, to the extent that providing the OS pieced would render the opperating system uselss, as it would fail to run... If you understand me.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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