In
<ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba10216f...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.net>,
on 09/27/2012
at 03:52 PM, "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" <[email protected]> said:
>That way, Linux is not free, you have to buy a PC first,
You don't need to buy a PC from Linus Torvalds to run Linux, and you
don't need a PC at all in order for it to be legal to run Linux. If
someone hands you a bucket of paint as a gift, it is free whether or
not you own a house; if you don't own one, the paint may be useful,
but it is free. If you have to buy a house to get the paint then it is
not free.
>If you don't have to pay to get a product, it is free of charge,
In this case you *do* have to pay in order to get the product.
>regardless of whether you paid for other things before or not, and
>to the same company or not.
If you don't already own that other product, and you can't legallu
acquire the first product without paying for the first product, then
it is not free.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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