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From: "Pueblo Native" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: are you telling me that I paid for free software?
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.
Any Fraud sounding stuff is something to stay away from. This so-called
support that seems to be, or could be, just a way to get someone to give
"personal"
info that "he/she/they" could sell to someone.
When I sell the disk with OpenOffice, I cover the costs of the burn and
add for my time (very little money) and some "profit" to go to two different
charities I deal with (both in need of money help). I would not sell it
without giving money to charity, those who need it. I tell people I know
how to get it online (openoffice.org). I make sure people know it is for
charity.
Anyone who sells anything else above and beyond the software, needs
to be checked out carefully. There are too many who are out there who
wants to make a quick profit on the stuff that if provided for free. Those
of us who sells things for helping charities get by, are getting "bad reps"
from those who get burnt by the "quick profit" sales people.
The only email list I have is for a newsletter that I write for a
historical society. Plus I give most of my support for free
or at low cost, only when I am with the person, and in my
local area. I also am helping a group of mentally "chalenged"
adults (saying the common name for then is not "polically correct")
with their computer skills.
As for placing the software on a server, I have it in a folder
on one of the web sites I manage so those who want or need
it will have it on "their" web site, and of course it is freely
downloadable.
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