Morning YS,
With respect to commercial organisations.....yes we do have different schools of thought and some of them decide to preach OpenSource vis-a-viv Free Software since it helps them make a buck or two. Their making $$$ through healthy business practices is essential for the economic fabric of OS-FSF to prosper. You may not agree with me on some of my concerns and that fine.
Yes, you did get shoved by them but this is more of a logistical issue that i am sure they would regret. Essentially.......as any other organisation in this world they are commercial minded, i have learnt that the hard way too. So like everyone else....you too are expendable. I can assure you of the same....the guy there will offer you a red carpet to get his/her image or job done and chuck you out when they don't need you any longer.
They all are be the same..........cause $$$$ come before your and my passion for FSF-OS. Try not to mix them up in your mind cause i did that sometime ago and i suffered at their hands. I also learnt the hard way that passion always doesn't pay, it can also back fire.
A kind suggestion would be to stay away from anyone pple like RH-SuSE Novell if you feel that commercialisation of OS-FSF hurts you. Cause at the bottom of it.....he wants to make more money, he wants to be bigger, he wants his bottom line to grow, he wants to be the only one to feed Gnu-Linux to Enterprises world wide.......!! In a capitalist society like ours, you can't call that a crime right..????.
Trevor
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