web kracked wrote:
> I sell the software on a CD with the PDF documentation
> and as many samples I could find.
>  
> I sell it for $10 and the profit goes to a charity.
>  
> Yes you are buying a free software, but you
> are paying for "not" spending the time downloading
> the software and all of the other files.  Many people
> have slow internet access and downloading 431Meg
> (1794 files in 55 folders) would take al large amount
> of time.
>  
> I would not want to download 431Meg using standard dial-up.
> How long would it take to down that on dial-up???
>  
> Would you pay someone to download it and creat a CD
> instead of you taking the hours to download it yourself?
> And burn it yourself
>  
> You are paying for his/my time downloading and burning
> the CDs.  The cost of the CD, jewel case, labels, the equipment
> used, the time / man-hours doing the work.  Plus for me the
> working hours at a table in a park or building for a event
> or show. 
>  
> It is legal to sell the software since he/me puts the time
> and materials into the package we sell.

I would agree that it's legal, but the time and materials are hardly the
justification for it.  He could put it in a secured area of his server
and sell a download and that would still be legal, in spite of the fact
that he really didn't do much of anything.
About the only thing that I am concerned about with this is if these
re-sellers are selling "support" that just may be only signing up their
e-mails to this list.  If that's not fraud in a legal sense, than at the
very least it gives some the false impression that their money actually
bought support _from this list_ and that we are somehow bound to answer
their questions first, as opposed to anybody else.

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