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Re: Slackware, Inc.? Internet Relay Chat buffoonery

From	Alexander Grotewohl <alexm0n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	Re: Slackware, Inc.? Internet Relay Chat buffoonery
Date	2024-02-20 05:17 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:00:34 -0000 (UTC), David Chmelik wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps you will be happier in life if you find something better to do 
with your time.

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Slackware, Inc.?  Internet Relay Chat buffoonery David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-02-20 05:00 +0000
  Re: Slackware, Inc.?  Internet Relay Chat buffoonery Alexander Grotewohl <alexm0n@gmail.com> - 2024-02-20 05:17 +0000
  Re: Slackware, Inc.?  Internet Relay Chat buffoonery Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2024-02-20 06:21 +0000
  Re: Slackware, Inc.? Internet Relay Chat buffoonery slash <slash@invalid.invalid> - 2024-02-21 09:34 +0100
    Re: Slackware, Inc.? Internet Relay Chat buffoonery David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-02-28 09:49 +0000
    Re: [...] Internet Relay Chat buffoonery David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 23:00 +0000
      Re: [...] Internet Relay Chat buffoonery noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-06-21 12:56 +1000
        Re: [...] Internet Relay Chat buffoonery David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 04:03 +0000
          Re: [...] Internet Relay Chat buffoonery noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-07-03 16:58 +1000

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