Hi,
I think most of theat money you pay goes into things like support, a
nicely printed manual, and with some distro's like open-linux2.2 and
many others they add in extra stuff. But like you said, if you don't
like it or need you can always download it for nothng,
cheers
Johann
rude bwoy wrote:
> have any of u checked out what linux is
> retailing for these days?
>
> it's like $70 or $80 for the cd!
>
> i got a new h/d and and i was gonna put
> rehat 6.0 on it. when i realized what
> they were selling "free" s/w for i decided
> to install 5.1 on the drive and download
> the rpm's i need.
>
> i understand that effort goes into packaging
> and distribution - but the people who should
> be getting the money (the programmers) are
> not!
>
> what's the deal???
>
> the rude
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