RE: [linux-audio-user] ebay guy: looks like he figured it out

My last post on this subject and then I'm done. Quote "There's no benefit to having it on CD by itself." Please do not think that you know what is, or is not, of benefit to someone else. What about a person that doesn't have a CD burner? What about a person who wants a backup copy so when the next release comes out and doesn't work he can go back? What about Grandma putting it under the Christmas tree for her grand kid? There are lots of 'reasonable' reasons for others that might not be 'reasonable' to you. So often people on these lists, and I'm not speaking specifically of you here Daniel, are *so* technically adept that they just plain forget what the real world is like for non-technical people. You don't know what people are doing out there. You don't know what their reasons are for wanting this. To many people this sort of purchase will be exactly like buying a tabloid at the checkout counter. I don't do that, but I don't propose taking away anyone's right to do it, nor do I spend any time worrying about whether they got their moneys worth. That's their business, not mine. This guy obviously got the message from you and others here through Ebay and has changed the way he's making his offer. That's positive. If someone wants to but it, I think that's great. If you want to sell Audacity, I think that's great too. Anything that gets people using the software is probably better in the long run for Open Source. I've turned so many people on to the few Windows versions of Open Source stuff that exist, like Audacity and ZynAddSubFx. I prefer to use them under Linux, but most musicians don't have a Linux box. I see this as one good way to eventually bring people to the Linux world. They start with this stuff on Windows, but they know it runs on Linux, and then maybe, someday, when they have a choice to make about operating systems they won't say 'there is no software for Linux'. Bye, Mark