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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:52:47 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:41:27 -0400, gregjohn wrote:
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>> > If someone told me linux costs $40, I'd have jumped for it.
>
>> Linux doesn't cost $40. Access to the proprietary media formats is
>> what costs.
>
> Actually nothing would stop me from making a linux distro and start
> selling it for $1000 per piece if I want. It's completely legal and
> conforms to the GPL license.
Absolutely. I know that well, as I work for a company that sells
Linux....
> (Of course expecting anyone to actually buy it is a bit hopeless given
> that I must distribute the sources on demand.)
Actually, I don't believe it's "on demand", it's that you must distribute
sources for any binaries (built from GPL code) you distribute, period.
> Some people are willing to pay some money for a complete solution
> nicely packed eg. on a DVD disk, even if that solution would contain
> nothing but free software. There's nothing wrong with that, and the GPL
> license certainly doesn't forbid that.
Yep, that's also true. Again, given who I work for, shouldn't be
surprising that I'm familiar with this. ;-)
Jim
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