[ILUG-BOM] my take on todays seminar < Ur view is right - But not entirely right >

[Manish Jethani]

Sometime today, Tushar Burman wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Manish Jethani" <cruisecoder at yahoo.com>
> 
> > > thread. Freedom == Good Thing (TM), Paying for
> > > software == Not so good (and so on and so
> >
> > Paying for s/w == Not so good.  Who said?  That's not
> > why I use GNU/Linux and that's not why I want to
> 
> I said that, but I derive that from within the confines of the
> GPL. If the GPL said all that it does, plus allowed one to
> sell binary-only copies, it would be pretty stupid, since no
> one would bother paying, right?

I don't get the link, really.  The GPL doesn't say anywhere that
having to pay for software is "not so good".  All it says is
that the user shouldn't be charged anything extra for the source
code to the software being sold.  And BTW, I just _paid_ for my
2-CD RedHat 6.2 from FreeOS, on Thursday.

So you can sell "binary-only" software, and you can give the
source code if the user asks.  Most users won't even bother to
ask for the source, because few people have the time to fix bugs
for you.

Manish

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