i'm sorry - but i respectfully disagree.
free - last i checked - does mean free.
ie: u don't pay for it.
if i choose to edit the binaries on windows
i can do so without penalty - won't get any
support but i can do it. still it's not free.
but is y u have FREELY available s/w that
you can only get binaries for.
shareware is not freeware - it's left to your
integrity to pay for it.
when u buy a chair u r paying for the materials
and labour, not the standard it was based on
my point is - i think it is unscrupulous to be
selling the efforts made by so many people
who did this work at no charge to so many of
us.
ok - and i quote "this isn't a place for a economics treatise"
so that's it from me.
CompUSA, BestBuy and Babbages r selling Redhat
for those prices.
the rude
Keith Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
> > have any of u checked out what linux is
> > retailing for these days?
> >
>
> linux does not retail for anything. some distributions do.
>
> > 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 run RH 6.0. didn't pay a nickle. downloaded it off the Internet.
>
> perhaps you are misunderstanding "free." free does not mean, in
> this case, "no-charge." free means open and accesible and
> according to freely available standards. the chair i am sitting on
> is built with screws and fabric and metal which conform to
> international, open, free standards. but a visit to an office
> furniture shop will prove the chair is way far from free.
>
> free means you can open the hood of your car and using sockets and
> tools which cost lots of money but conform to free standards and can
> work on your car, even re-engineer it if you've the knowledge and
> skills and are so inclined..
>
> non-free, propritary software, even free-shareware is like a car
> whose hood is welded shut.
>
> you have several concepts confused.
>
> > 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 deal seems very different than you think/expect. I am a raw
> newbie to Linux and reasonably new to computing generally. hope
> i've clarified "free' a bit.
>
> > the rude
>
> no charge...
>
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