December 5, 2002 01:10 am, FARSHAD wrote: > hello miark > thanks alot for your mail .. > all these apps which you say are monetary .. > Linux is open source and GPL (copy left) why > some app in this platform is monetary ? > bye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Couple of things:
1.) Software developers have to eat and provide for their families too; so if they want to charge for something that I want/need I'll probably cough up the money since I can't develop the software myself. 2.) If all of us got everything for free there would be no Open Source/Free Software Developers. The reason? See number 1. Even though most of the people that I've been introduced to/become acquainted with through reading seem to do this because they love the freedom as well as the writing code, reality says they can't work for free all the time and that they need to be able to devote their energies into accomplishing the project goals. That's why I buy box sets of the OS. Don't want these folk starving to death on me! There's a difference in "Free" as in open source and "free" as in "here catch!" Confusion (in the English language anyway) comes from that. Unlike French; which has two words for the variations; gratuit for free as in the second example, and libre which describes the philosophy of the free software foundation, English has no such built in syntactical variation. Think of it as "free" = no cost for the software, versus "Free" = Liberty to use the code to develop something you like better. That you can make a living from even. Liberty is (AFAIK) never free. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org All is well that ends well. -- John Heywood
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