[openbeos] Re: Hiring Programmers

At 09:57 PM 2/8/2003 +0930, you wrote:
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:55:49 -0500, Michael Phipps wote:

> Another *POSSIBILITY* is that the source remains free, but rolled
> distros could be sold.
>I know that at first this sounds contrary to "Open Source", after all,
> everybody makes
>.iso's available. But there is nothing that requires that an OSS group
> do so.

This is increasingly happening in the Linux world with distros like
Lycoris and Lindows AFAIK.

 Sure, if you want to d/l the source and build it yourself, it is free.
If not, you pay us N dollars. This is just a possibility. Something
that we, the admin team, haven't discussed but that I would like
opinions on

Unlike Linux, though, a big commercial venture is not needed to make OBOS user-friendly. Even if we only offer the source for free, people *will* make free pre-compiled versions, with some extra apps thrown in (the Max Edition guy, for instance) in short order.




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