Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100% Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Admin admin@whatsmyip.org wrote:
Hi I just started a linux 'Download-Burn-Mail' service for downloading ISO's for people. It's not a free service, but its very very cheap, and we get the discs in the mail next-day. So if you are interested in linking to our service, please feel free to do so :-)
http://www.whatsmyip.org/osdiscsbymail/
And of course, email me if you have any questions or comments about it.
Thanks John
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On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:34 +0100, Keiran Smith wrote:
Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100% Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
You're welcome to your opinion, but you have to keep in mind a couple of things:
1) The Free Media Program is under-resourced, and a voluntary effort. 2) This is hardly the first instance of someone selling physical media of Free/Open Source software.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:34 +0100, Keiran Smith wrote:
Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100% Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
You're welcome to your opinion, but you have to keep in mind a couple of things:
- The Free Media Program is under-resourced, and a voluntary effort.
- This is hardly the first instance of someone selling physical media
of Free/Open Source software.
Those whom want to provide Fedora DVD or CD at a small fee, read here:- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/LocalVendors
Hope the above help.
Keiran:
I am not aware of people not being able to make money off of open source. While Fedora gives away media there are additional services that a disk burning service can provide.
1) Custom burns that include all the patches to-date for that distro 2) Faster delivery than the distro's free ordering process
While most will choose to download the .iso themselves, these services help those with meetered connections or those that are still on dial-up.
I truly do not see the conflict with FOSS and companies making money from it.
cprofitt
---- Keiran Smith affix@FedoraProject.org wrote:
Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100% Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Admin admin@whatsmyip.org wrote:
Hi I just started a linux 'Download-Burn-Mail' service for downloading ISO's for people. It's not a free service, but its very very cheap, and we get the discs in the mail next-day. So if you are interested in linking to our service, please feel free to do so :-)
http://www.whatsmyip.org/osdiscsbymail/
And of course, email me if you have any questions or comments about it.
Thanks John
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Hi,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Keiran Smith affix@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Personally I think that defeats the purpose of having an open source 100% Free Operating System. At the fedora project we provide free disks as part of our Free Media Program. All anyone has to do is ask
Selling Fedora Media at a price is perfectly fine and don't have any conflict with freemedia.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Admin admin@whatsmyip.org wrote:
Hi I just started a linux 'Download-Burn-Mail' service for downloading ISO's for people. It's not a free service, but its very very cheap, and we get the discs in the mail next-day. So if you are interested in linking to our service, please feel free to do so :-)
Thanks for the initiative. Could you please list yourself in the online vendor page?[1]
[1]fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors
Thanks.
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