Actually, the folks who make Opera still charge for their browser. That does not justify his comment about browsers -- but it does make you wonder if he intends to charge for IE now that he's all but crushed Netscape.
But O'Reilly's role in the open-source movement has long riled some hardcore free software hackers, who perceive O'Reilly & Associates as profiting unfairly from free software by selling "non-free" manuals.
Um... wasn't part of the point of free software that you could still sell support? I personally consider a well-written manual as support, so I'm not sure why it's not right for O'Reilly to sell manuals that they've contracted people to write.
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Actually, the folks who make Opera still charge for their browser. That does not justify his comment about browsers -- but it does make you wonder if he intends to charge for IE now that he's all but crushed Netscape.
Sure. If you ever get made a moderator, post that fact to some threads. Rob will remove your moderator status as soon as he reads it. ;-)
But O'Reilly's role in the open-source movement has long riled some hardcore free software hackers, who perceive O'Reilly & Associates as profiting unfairly from free software by selling "non-free" manuals.
Um ... wasn't part of the point of free software that you could still sell support? I personally consider a well-written manual as support, so I'm not sure why it's not right for O'Reilly to sell manuals that they've contracted people to write.