<Nods in agreement>
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Ben Kennish
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w: www.fubra.com
Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> Simple solution for you: Don't buy it.
>
> Unless you helped write the software, you have no say in what it sells for.
>
> The FreeVSD guys have done a lot of cool things for free...if they want
> to charge for some of the things they do, you or I shouldn't begrudge
> them that. I have no plans to use anything that isn't Open Source in my
> products, but no one but me has an obligation to make sure that I have
> all the tools I need.
>
> I find it offensive when anyone attacks a mostly free software company
> for creating a few non-free tools. Interestingly, when a proprietary
> software company opens a few of their tools, they are praised far and
> wide...but when the reverse happens, the community acts as if they've
> been betrayed.
>
> So...Unless you're writing an alternative, /right now/, and plan to
> release it under the GPL or other OSS license, then you have no business
> complaining (even then, it's probably in bad form to complain).
>
> The phrase "looking a gift horse in the mouth" springs to mind...Sheesh.
>
> Free VSD wrote:
>
> > Dear experts,
> >
> > I feel the pricing of VSDclient and VSDcontrol is simply ridiculous,
> > esp when both freeVSD and possibly the software is still bug
> > ridden.
> >
> > Please any of you make the PHP WebAdmin scripts work better and
> > forget about the clients. I'll make a stature for you! :-)
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> http://www.swelltech.com
