On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 06:09:42PM -0500, rude bwoy wrote:
>
> free - last i checked - does mean free.
> ie: u don't pay for it.
From Webster's Encyclopedic Unabrigded Dictionary:
free
1) enjoying personal rights or liberty as a person who is not in slavery
...
11) provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment
> 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.
And can you legally redistribute those modified binaries to all your friends
for no monetary charge?
> 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.
The people who wrote the software chose the license (GPL in most cases). That
license permits the reselling of the software. If the authors didn't want that
they can feel free to change the license on a future version.
> CompUSA, BestBuy and Babbages r selling Redhat
> for those prices.
So is RedHat. What's your point?
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