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   David Chmelik to All   
   Slackware, Inc.? Internet Relay Chat buf   
   20 Feb 24 05:00:34   
   
   From: dchmelik@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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