Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:45:32 GMT From: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> To: dan@langille.org, miguel@anjos.strangled.net Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Mall : to hell Message-ID: <200602241245.k1OCjWR5003814@compaq.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <43FEB6CF.31317.2E7A826E@dan.langille.org>
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> From dan@langille.org Fri Feb 24 12:33:48 2006 > From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> > To: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:33:35 -0500 > Subject: Re: BSD Mall : to hell > Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org > > On 24 Feb 2006 at 12:22, Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote: > > > Wherever there's people making money out of free software there's > > dishonesty. > > This is untrue. Many people make money out of free software. There > is a long history of it and all of it quite honest. Sorry. I meant in the CD packing business. How can it be explained that Red Hat EL sells for a price comparable to some versions of Windows? At least, at Microsoft they had the costs of producing themselves a new, modern OS from scratch. What about some versions of linux totally based on free and GPLed software selling for $40-50? The price of media?
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