On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:36:49 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >I'm one of the people who doesn't yet understand the Gratis/Libre >concept. Once you make your "free speech" source available, that's the >same as "free beer" for software, unless you're in a parallel universe >where everyone follows rules.
Mark and John both made excellent points. Consider this, too, perhaps it will be easier to understand. There is software that you can obtain at no cost that comes with licensing restrictions that limit your freedom to use it as you desire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware You can charge for distributing free software. Red Hat and SUSE both do it. You can call it support if you like, but you don't need to. If you want to distribute DVDs containing your favorite distribution of GNU/Linux, you can charge as much as you want (and can get someone to pay) for them, whether or not you provide support. https://gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
