Re: [HACKERS] BSD vs. GPL

On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 10:14:22PM -0400, Clark Evans wrote:
> To this end, they will spend some serious doe, but only on improvements
> and fixes that directly affect the ability of the distribution to ship
> to a client, thus, we have RPM, device drivers, and GNOME.

But these improvements make it into other distributions as well.

> I doubt that it is anything "significant", and if it is, I would
> call Red Hat's situation exceptional.  They have a near monopoly on
> corporate/consumer distributions, and their $80 price tag is the 

In the US maybe, but over here in Germany they are way down the chart. 

Michael
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