[FSF-India] Help me out...

Anil S Babu fsf-india@mail.gnu.org.in
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:00:27 +0530


Pappu wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:01PM +0530, Anil S Babu wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > Free Software companies should provide the customers  solution and
> > > > support rather than products.
> > > Even non free software vendors must do that. No one can survive by selling
> > > licenses at all.
> > > >
> >
> > This is not neccessary as with GPL, source code is also given, so
> > maintenance and support can be done by yourself.
> 
> This is where the difference between home user (the one who dosen't pay) and
> the corporate user (one who pays) comes in. The corporate user payed because he
> dosen't want any trouble while using the software. He has other work and fixing
> the software he uses is not his priority (Although nothing stops him in any way).

But the GNU GPL does not warantee for the software, no..??