On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Derek Kalweit wrote:
>>> Selling freeware?
>
>> You can create a compilation disk of free software and
>> sell it.
>> What's so hard to understand?
>
> That's not selling freeware, that's charging for the service of
> burning onto the media, distribution, etc.
Well, I guess if you think this reads better:
"He first came across free software in the late 1980s, when he was
charging for the service of burning freeware onto media and
distributing it from home as a sideline while working at Unisys."
Personally, I think the original reads much clearer.
> Secondly, the term
> 'freeware' usually refers to something different than the gpl'd 'free
> software' that you're referring to(far simpler than GPL), particularly
> back in the late 80's as this was...
Yeah, and before the internet, you had to have disks mailed to you.
I remember people selling disks of games, fonts, etc.
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