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- From: lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Profiteering at FSF (was: First GNU CD-ROM)
- Message-ID: <75986@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:49:29 GMT
- References: <9212091353.AA01413@grackle.stockbridge.ma.us>
- Sender: lenoil@Apple.COM
- Organization: Catalogic, Mountain View, California [Voice: 415-961-4649]
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- >The CD costs $100 if you are an individual, $400 if you are a
- >business. This is a distribution fee. The software is `copylefted',
- >which means you have the the right to copy, change, and redistribute it.
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- It seems to me that a "distribution fee" would be to recover the costs of
- distribution, which shouldn't differ for individuals vs. businesses. You're
- really stretching the "Free" in "Free Software Foundation" by marking up the
- CD-ROM cost 400% for businesses. I never would have expected such behavior
- from FSF, and am quite disappointed.
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