Patrick said: > Parents of autistic kids are already under > enormous stress and most won't end up knowing there was a free as in > beer alternative. parisites will swoop in an screw over the parents by > sellign them the software.
It's good that you're concerned that people might be taken advantage of but I think your concerns are unfounded. There is remarkable self-correcting power in the world. If someone is charging too much for a copy of the software someone else will come in and undercut them by offering the same software at a lower cost (maybe even free) and if the price is a big problem word *will* get around so it isn't necessary for the license to mandate that the software be distributed at no cost. This is also discussed in Selling Free Software [1], specifically the "Will a higher distribution price hurt some users?" section. As an example, internet access isn't available everywhere and so the requirement to distribute it at no cost means that I couldn't give copies to people for, say, $5 each on CD to cover my costs of buying and mailing CDs because that's not without cost. Not only is distributing for a fee not a problem that you need to worry about for the reasons I stated but mandating that there be no cost could also be a hindrance to others that want to help. [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
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