> > So we could be talking about at least US$50,000 profit that this > > guy has made selling 'free as in beer' software. > 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? Audacity is a trivial download. There's no benefit to having it on CD by itself. A value-added CD packed with royalty free samples might be a different story, and the possibility of producing that has been discussed on the Audacity lists. Cheers Daniel