"Basically the operation is shutting down." With these words, Tal Danzig, the owner and technical lead for the Libranet distribution, quietly announced in his blog on November 25 the news that users had been dreading ever since his announcement two months ago that the distribution was "restructuring." Danzig did not rule out the possibility of reviving the distribution after his return in February 2006 from a three-month trip to Israel. Yet, for now, the announcement seems to mark the end of one of the oldest and best-loved Debian-based distributions. On Distrowatch, Libranet's status is now marked as "dormant." On June 1st, 2005, Jon Danzig, co-founder of Libranet and father of Tal Danzig passed away.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Just to put an end to this argument, once and for all, Libranet is not the only linux distro which has closed source components.
A typical example is Mepis, which has a closed source installer. However you don't hear people complaining too often, because Mepis has always been available for free.
And yet Warren has found ways of making money with Mepis. Imagine that tomorrow Warren gets enough of Mepis and sells it. What will Mepis users have to say?
Conversely a lot (the majority) of Libranet users have never paid for it: they have either used a free, previous version, or the got they current one from a friend or relative.
Therefore I don't find it fair that somebody who has never paid for Libranet complains about Tal's plans.
Member since:yak yak yak.... some other distro this some other distro that, gpl doesnt require handing it out...yak yak yak
YES! we got all that, now can we discuss the actuall situation?
"Therefore I don't find it fair that somebody who has never paid for Libranet complains about Tal's plans"
Well how else are we suppose to get libranet now consider he isnt even selling it....
You think he can find investors or anything for a company that currently is stale and unavailable???
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Anonymous Penguin wrote:
If you register with, say, an Hotmail address, you're more anonym if you register.
_"Gosh, you aren't the smartest person on earth.
I guess I'll have to agree: It's my first time writing here amd I trusted Morgoth too much.
_"Your IP address is on top of each of your messages here, as you have chosen to post as anonymous.""
That's what I was just checking at the moment. I wonder why so-called Dave Morgoth is complaining about anonymity here
As for the fundamentals, I see we're agreeing: after making a living writing the code, Tal Danzig is now trying to sell it to make a few dollars more. Perfectly legal! Great development model for Linux!