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: > >?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! 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
