Like whispering sweet nothings in my ear...

It's a toy. True Linux users use a real distro. Or better yet, use BSD. Even Apple knows that.

Yea, you can charge for opensource product.....

1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

Many companies do... have a product built on opensource and charge for the product.

--Mitch

Good point there Halfnium... I to run multiple OS's... Linux RHEL5 currently as my base with VMware and Virtual Box (VMware license form work) Virtual Box just to test with several other Windows and *unix versions running at once. eSATA cards make it really nice can have a small drive dedicated to an OS to help with the IO issues. But you can do the same as you say, share source files, code DB etc.... and with an internal virtual network live testing is easy as well...

But your right, Opensource is here, it is a big part of the web world. CC currently has done a good job of bridging things though. There are very few good, well supported inexpensive commercial packages out there. CC has excelled in that arena.

If the big players would stop fighting each other for the next "my interpretation of the standard is right so buy my product in order to make the web work" the computer world would be a much better place...

--Mitch

I understand that. But the company builds their product upon the foundation of freely distributed software. They are not selling the open source code, they are profiting from their own work they incorporated into the platform. Just like you can sell plugins and themes for open source software.

Ok, so what do we differ on here?? hahahaha....

--Mitch

That open source is freely distributed without charge, which of course, it is.

Ahh Ok, so then let me rephrase then.. a company can make a profit and grow on profits from the redistribution, integration and support of open source...

See-ya
Mitch

Agreed!

Not trying to deviate from the Pirates of Ubuntu but I haven't had much trouble running HTML Editor and VSD with WINE in Ubuntu. If WINE continues to advance I don't see this actually being an issue.

My general opinion of all Linux flavors is you get what you pay for.