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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:19:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.191909.14072@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1561@hcshh.hcs.de>
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- A truly free system is one that can be sold as well as given away.
-
- You want this thing to take over the world, right? That includes letting
- people fix it up, make special versions for specific purposes (cash
- registers, realtime, etc.), and sell it. It is not a coincidence that
- the Jolitzes allow for others to sell 386BSD... otherwise it will be
- relegated to being nothing more than a laboratory curiosity.
-
- Secondly, free software isn't free. It was a lot of work for us to
- download 386BSD, twice now, and get it running. Reading news, finding
- bugs, fixing bugs, pulling down and applying bug fixes, maintaining
- versions, updating, upgrading, and managing this thing costs money,
- directly and indirectly. Even if you value your time at some
- very low amount of dollars per hour, you are spending thousands of
- dollars to do it the way you're doing it.
-
- Someone who has a lot of time and little money can take the time to
- cut a complete 70-or-so floppy distribution including X from a friend's
- copy. In a corporate environment, or really for anyone making even
- halfway decent money, cutting 70 floppies looks like something to be
- avoided at all costs.
-
- I have heard that John Lennon willed all of his work tapes and such to
- the world, subject to the caveat that nobody should make money distributing
- any of it, and I wonder how in the hell any of it will be distributed.
-
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