RE: [LUG] linux history questions

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 14:10, Roland Tarver wrote:
> Thanks Alex, I'll be learning some more soon so There's no need to ask dumb
> questions -----> Gooooogle (as advised)
>
> > You're making the common mistake of confusing price with liberty.
>
> "I thought linux was a free OS. Free as in £0 and _source-included_."
>  - I do understand this bit of the open source concept and liberties it
> provides.

Just because distributions are available at little or no cost does not
mean they have to be, people still need to earn a living and companies
still need to make a profit.  There is nothing in free software
licensing that stops software being sold.

Even a boxed-set of Linux costs relatively little if you consider what
you get for it and compare that cost to proprietary OSes. 

Alex.


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