Re: [LINK] Re: Unix {Was: Looking for some Web server statistics]

From: Sean Neakums (sneakums@zork.net)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 23:39:50 EST


>>>>> "h" == hartr <hartr@redhat.com> writes:

    h> On 6 Aug, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> and, given that RH is also available for free download it's
>> probably even more accurate to call it semi-commercial...but if
>> you as a representative of RH want to call your product
>> "commercial", i'm not going to dispute it.

    h> You are failing to grasp the point that Linux being
    h> 'commercial' or not is determined by its USE; wether the
    h> organisation using it paid for it or not is irrelevant.

`Commercial' always means `sold for money' when contrasted with
`proprietary'; even if that is not how you choose to use the word,
that is how I intended it when I brought up the distinction between
`commercial' and `proprietary'.

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