On Wednesday 06 December 2017 11:28:22 Random832 wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017, at 11:18, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > You suggested that if he wasn't familiar with free software, his > > request that people send him a copy of Python wouldn't look so odd. > > Okay, if Python weren't free software, it would be non-free > > software, and you are saying that it wouldn't look so odd for > > somebody to join a mailing list and request a bunch of strangers to > > gift him a copy of non-free software. > > The third possibility is that he believes that this list is official > in some corporate sense, that if he asks for the software and it is > not free he will receive a price quote.
Sadly, that an attitude even college profs don't get, having gotten their sheepskin with only M$ stuff, that something could be both free and good. It's a concept that makes no sense to the teachers, so of course they don't teach it either. Hell of a way to run a train. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
