Would you pay?

[cybergal]

Yes. I bought Mandrake 7.1 last year and a whole bunch of books.

[coltrane]

Ive purchased SEVERAL Mandys, including the server version....Ive purchased 2 SuSe distros, and Im getting ready to order Libranet.

I understand that this is FREE software, but these companies have employees that have bills....its way of giving back.

I lurk around sites like these in order to help other Linux users when I can. Thats another way of giving back.

Thats what its all about. You give what you take. Alter and improve for the sake of innovation.

[TaeShadow]

As Debian does not provide ISO images for sid as it is, I would not mind if they started making them and charging for them. *

If they stopped offering binaries for no charge, then I probably would compile from source, but I might decide to support them.

If they stopped offering source for free, then I would stop using *Debian. *

If no GNU/Linux distro offered source for free, then I would use FreeBSD. *

If FreeBSD were not free, then I would not use a computer.


edit: I'd like to change that. If FreeBSD were not free, then I would make my own distro. If I could not do that, then I would not use a computer.

[Feztaa]

Well, I'd do LFS, but then again I'd do LFS anyway

I might buy Debian discs in the future, if I ever get money, just to support them.

I'd go with FreeBSD or GNU Emacs (you can now install X Window, OpenGL and Vim inside Emacs )

[TeRG]

i would have no problem paying for slack or freebsd. i own them both and i like them both.....the only problem i had with debian is that its the _only_ distro that didnt automatically detect my tnt2 card. i can still get it to rwork so that isnt a big deal but i like my slack.

[TeRG]

hell, i have mandrake, corel, debian, redhat, slackware, freebsd, and im working on an lfs install.

[cga]

I'd go with FreeBSD or GNU Emacs (you can now install X Window, OpenGL and Vim inside Emacs )

Cool. With Vim installed, Emacs would finally have a good text editor. ;D

[imported_Psycho]

I have paid for the standard version of RH6 & RH7 when 7 was reasonable ($30). And I bought a 7 something copy of 'Drake a while back. RH7.2 is up to like $60 for the standard version w/ no goodies to speak of. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for Linux to support the cause, but I have downloaded the incrementals of RH. I figured they owed me a download with 7.0 having a broken compiler ...

Hell, for that matter I've bought RR TycoonII, S.O.F. and 2 copies of Quake3 Arena 8) Now I need to build another 3D accel box so I can frag the kid

Cool. *With Vim installed, Emacs would finally have a good text editor. * ;D

You heard of viper mode, did you?