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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Profiteering at FSF (was: First GNU CD-ROM)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 10:11:44 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >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.
-
-
- The whole idea behind the FSF hasn't been that the software was free, but
- that your access to it was. You were given full source and are allowed to do
- what you please with the software.
-
- They have always stood behind the right to make a profit. Come on, if they
- can't make money, then how do you expect them to continue.
-
- Try reading the GNU manifesto sometime, it explains some of this in more
- detail. If you have read it before do read it again, because you obviously
- missed the boat and the point.
-
- James
-