Black Lab Linux 4.2 Beta 1 released

[Johannes Lips]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 03:23 -0500, Roberto J Dohnert wrote:
> > This is a valid related Linux announcement.  It has been in development
> > quite a while and we are letting people know that this distribution beta
> > has released and they can assist in making it better.  As is the true
> > spirit of Linux and open source, hence the Black Lab Linux Project is an
> > open source project such as is XFCE and the very platform you are using
> now.
> >
> > As for us being commercial, yes we are a commercial company and we do
> > offer a release of Black Lab Enterprise Linux. 98% of Linux distributors
> > do this
> >
> > In our announcement we made ZERO references to people having to BUY
> > anything.  We offer our source code for the entire system through the
> > repositories and through our website for people to compile, reuse,
> > redistribute in anyway they see fit.  Black Lab Linux 4.2 Beta 1 is
> > freely available to download and use as are our previous releases.
> >
> > A commercial advertisement for goods means you HAVE to buy something.
> > Please learn the difference so you don't assume something nefarious is
> > in the air.
>
> Do 98% of the Linux distributions sent links with commercial products to
> other mailing lists? No, not a single serious Linux distribution does!
> Period.
>

> You spammed the list with an evil advertising, this is completely
> against the philosophy of Linux.


Your reaction is totally over the top here. Where is the problem if someone
tries to make some money with open source.
I really don't see the point of this reaction and I find it totally
unnecessary.




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