On 8/24/05, Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Free as in open source means that you are Free to take the source code > > and modify it. You are also free to copy it and give it away to others > > or to install it on as many computers as you want. You are also Free to > > sell it and distribute it so long as you make the source code available > > to all. > > How can it be ok to sell and distribute something that is free? Can > somebody please explain? > > > -- > Sebastian P. Luque >
Easy, traditionally companies that give something away prevent the users to generate any commercial activity with it. They label it 'Prohibit Selling this Product'. Well we don't like prohibiting people of what they do so we don't. We give even that freedom to the users. -- Alexandro Colorado
