On Sunday 11 June 2006 00:04, jim tate wrote: > I purchased a Linspire5.0 box from Fry's for a $150.00 and I don't care > for Linspires ploy > of charging a fee for downloading Open Source software.
Because you don't seem to understand what you're paying for. You're not paying for the software, you're paying for the convenience to have it all packaged, tested and integrated into the distribution so it's easy to use for you. You're paying for the service of keeping stuff updated to fix security and functional bugs, and getting those updates in a ready-made, zero effort format for you to apply. See? It's not a ploy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
