[Fsf-friends] The Value of Free Software

[प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)]

The Value of Free Software
Evolution's usefulness has long been hampered by the lack of a single
feature. Because it is free software, one organization knew the feature
could be added, either by themselves, or by paying someone to do it for
them. Find out what they did, why and how they did it, and how you can get
the patch for yourself.

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/64720/index.html

Regards
Praveen

PS: Most people think the freedom to change the software is not useful
to them if they don't know programming, this is an excellent example
why Free Software is better than proprietary software.

see Shreyas' post about it http://blogs.gnome.org/view/shres/2006/07/12/0

-- 
"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history.
`Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
-- Richard Stallman
Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr