6 Dec
2003
6 Dec
'03
5:09 a.m.
Let's face it he's selling to Windows and Mac users for a very low price.
Heh!
On Friday 05 December 2003 16:09, Mark Knecht wrote:
I agree, it's about choice. I could almost justify getting one for one of my
poor Windows using friends who doesn't have apt-get. Partly to have a look.
It's unlikely that I will, however, for various other reasons - like not
having an ebay account. :-]
cheers
tim hall
So we could be
talking about at least US$50,000 profit that this guy
has made selling 'free as in beer' software.
Cheers
Daniel
How is this any different than the guys who sell 16 Linux distro's on CD to
people who want to buy it that way? There are lots of people that still
like a office full of CDs. It's easy to go back to what was working, or
make two machines work the same. There are good reasons to buy on CD.
I know one very knowledgeable Linux guy who is a top Redhat contributor
that subscribes to some service that sends him his distros all updated
nicely every 90 days on CD. He uses those and doesn't download anything off
the net. He's forgotten more than I'll ever know about Linux and he spends
$100/year for the service?
Why? Because it's a free choice about free software, even though the
outcome isn't free!