Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!unmvax.cs.unm.edu!mike From: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Media cost Message-ID: <248@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 26 Jul 89 22:17:18 GMT References: <33473@apple.Apple.COM> <247@unmvax.unm.edu> Sender: news@unmvax.unm.edu Reply-To: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Organization: University of No Money, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lines: 17 In article paul@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >I though the idea was _Free_ software. I could understand $50--$100 >in media cost for disks; $500 is a bit steep. "Free" as in "you are free to do with this program as you please" not as in "you get this program for no money." Of course, the first tends to mean that lots of nice people will give it to you for their cost, which is often nil (like anonymous FTP sites that need to have it around anyway). But lots of other people (like the Austin Code Works) will try to get money out of you. But, the meaning of "free" is that however you get it, you are free to do with it as you please. Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 292 0001 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!