David Chmelik
2024-02-20 05:00:34 UTC
Where could I lookup information about Slackware, Inc.? I also suppose
it's for-profit, even if no profit is being made from items such as
compact/digital_versatile discs (CDs/DVDs) (but was in past)?
There's a fair bit of libera Internet Relay Chat (IRC) ##slackware
buffoonery (even since days of freenode, but moreso) like one European
chatter (not native English speaker) claiming Slackware isn't or never was
commercial, because doesn't sell official technical support, when
'commercial' just refers to 'commerce', or buying & selling anything at
all including CDs/DVDs (so Slackware at least was commercial for decades)
or arguably even just software/code people download (from servers that
have to be paid for) that many people pay Patrick Volkerding on paypal.com
and patreon.com so he's actually making a modest salary for several/few
years. I'd still call this commercial, despite being paid in a new way
people still receive something useful (despite intangible). Patrick also
sells t-shirts, etc. on cafepress.com, which is commercial, even though
it's not CDs/DVDs. Licenses also don't restrict others selling technical
support, which several do linked on slackware.com.
At least one IRC chatter is (c)rude and attacks other chatters, but
one runs an unofficial Slackware archive, and admitted he's a troll.
it's for-profit, even if no profit is being made from items such as
compact/digital_versatile discs (CDs/DVDs) (but was in past)?
There's a fair bit of libera Internet Relay Chat (IRC) ##slackware
buffoonery (even since days of freenode, but moreso) like one European
chatter (not native English speaker) claiming Slackware isn't or never was
commercial, because doesn't sell official technical support, when
'commercial' just refers to 'commerce', or buying & selling anything at
all including CDs/DVDs (so Slackware at least was commercial for decades)
or arguably even just software/code people download (from servers that
have to be paid for) that many people pay Patrick Volkerding on paypal.com
and patreon.com so he's actually making a modest salary for several/few
years. I'd still call this commercial, despite being paid in a new way
people still receive something useful (despite intangible). Patrick also
sells t-shirts, etc. on cafepress.com, which is commercial, even though
it's not CDs/DVDs. Licenses also don't restrict others selling technical
support, which several do linked on slackware.com.
At least one IRC chatter is (c)rude and attacks other chatters, but
one runs an unofficial Slackware archive, and admitted he's a troll.