macheist.com — "For anyone interested, up to 20,000 limited licenses for Linkinus for all versions up through 1.1.X will be distributed for free on this page over the next few days. Just put in your name and email, and they'll email you back within the hour with your license code."
Jul 10, 2007 View in Crawl 4
antitabJul 11, 2007
How does this client compare with Colloquy, which I've been using for awhile and have grown quite fond of?
mobtekJul 11, 2007
Yeah I'll take a free license, it's a good irc app but it's certainly not worth the money when there are so many free irc clients out there.KDE4 is going to be running natively on mac without X11 and then it's back to the best irc client out there Konversation!
naota53Jul 11, 2007
It looks amazing compared to the relatively GUI-less ones ive used on a MAC.. Awesome Job!
baloourizaJul 12, 2007
Everybody can. The only thing more stupid than charging for something that has no natural scarcity (software, ie something infinitely reproducable, thus having no scarcity) is paying for something with no natural scarcity. That being said, there is no dishonor in free software developers requesting donations. Many large projects such as Mozilla (the group behind Firefox and Thunderbird) and Software in the Public Interest (the group behind Debian) exist largely or entirely on donations)."But don't programmers deserve pay, too?" Yes, they do, when they're providing a service like contract programming, *NOT* for packaging the service as a product. God knows damn near every company with an IT department has at least one program written and maintained in-house, so it's not like there isn't a market for programmers that doesn't involve being socially hostile to the userbase.
baloourizaJul 12, 2007
It's free? Really? So, which free software license does it use again?
baloourizaJul 12, 2007
With software, you can get a worse product, but you have to pay more. Open source FTW.
baloourizaJul 12, 2007
Why not donate the money you'd spend on proprietary software to support the KDE project instead? If you /must/ spend money on software, why not vote with your money?
stevemaxJul 12, 2007
Yeah, because the GPL is the *ONLY* free license. Apache, Mozilla, BSD, MIT... are all proprietary according to the FSF.The point here is that you get something that usually has a cost without paying that cost. It's not "FSF-free", but it's "my-wallet-won't-get-lighter"-free. Unfortunately, English doesnt have the vocabulary to distinguish what in Latin languages is "gratis" and "livre".
linccApr 14, 2008
name:larryemail: lincc@hotmail.com
pilot69Jun 2, 2008
name: Pilotemail: pilot136@li.ru
xsuiteJul 10, 2008
Shut up and take the free software.
mailbox21Jul 19, 2008
is this still going on?name: mailboxemail: mailbox21@gmail.com
jwire4Apr 4, 2009
name: Robertrobert@teamrosenfeld.comI'd love a free Linkinus serial please! :D