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- From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux Diskette Distribution
- Keywords: distribution, money, muchos
- Message-ID: <2479@eonwe.gmv.es>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 10:34:53 GMT
- References: <3480@key.COM> <BstKFM.Kzz@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Aug11.152247.5160@cs.wisc.edu>
- Organization: Grupo de Mecanica del Vuelo, S.A. (GMV), Madrid, Spain
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- In article <1992Aug11.152247.5160@cs.wisc.edu> djansa@aphrodite.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
- >
- >Being a student, I know money is not that easy to come up with. I would
- >hate to see a student not be able to get linux because they can't come
- >up with 60 bucks. 19 disks?? What on earth are you giving them? I got
- >the mcc release on 4! 5 more for X!! I _know_ that doesn't cost
- >$60 bucks. Any student would be willing to pay for the disks, but 60
- >bucks??
-
- What's the problem? You can get Linux for free, just find someone that
- will give it to you. You know no one? Well, you have several options.
- Find a nearby BBS and download it. Get a free-ride on your University
- FTP or mail service to get it. Or pay a commercial service
- to give you a link. Or pay someone to put it on disks for you. And
- they can charge whatever they want for it just as anyone else. This
- is not forbidden by the GPL. What is forbidden is to impose limits
- on redistribution. Join a few friends and share the cost. I probably
- will and save me the burden to go around umpteen mail servers
- and save the company the cost for something that is outside their
- interest. You can do that. You probably can get the free-ride but
- many people will find $60 cheap when compared to other options. Believe
- me. Phone connection time to a BBS does cost money. So does Internet
- or electronic mail. Spare time does cost too, maybe not money, but it
- is very dear to me.
-
- >Let's keep Linux alive and well, and FREE!!
-
- The GPL is about freedom not price. These people are doing nothing
- that hurts you. You are not going to have to pay because of these
- people. No one is hurt by this. They make Linux available to more
- people. The price is not an issue, even if they make big money,
- that I am not saying they will. I don't know if Linus foresaw this,
- but it is within the scope of the GPL. Most of the GNU software we
- have around here came in paid-for CD-ROMs. It's cheaper for us.
- That's what this is all about. Let people get Linux the cheapest
- way they can. The floor price is $0.00 and no one has changed that.
- No one able to get it for free before is being denied that right now.
- People not able to get it before *at all* are getting a chance. Many
- are getting another option. This can only help to keep Linux "alive
- and well".
-
- Sorry if I sound harsh, that was not the intention.
-
- Julio
-
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