On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:10 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote:
> Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are
> > free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license 
> > says that charging money is ok, then it's ok. And the ammount of money I 
> > charge you for the original copy has no bearing on the situation. It's 
> > all about the license.
> 
> Thanks for your explanation.  I just find it odd that anybody would want
> to deliberately buy something that's available for free.  I, for one,
> wouldn't trust anybody trying to sell me things I can get for free.  I
> would dig *very* deep in search of a scam.  But I would need to know the
> product is available for free in the first place.

Think of it as buying a service. You are not really buying the product,
you are buying the convenience of having it packaed in a CD for you.
Microsoft charge around $35 for a media kit here in the UK. That is just
a CD, so buying an OpenOffice.org CD for $5 is somewhat of a bargain ;-)

-- 
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ZMSL


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