Re: gEDA-user: More footprint stuff

[Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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DJ Delorie wrote:
|>Now you might think that anybody could just get a copy of RHEL and
|>stick it on the web for free download, thus undercutting RedHat's
|>ability to sell their CDs for more than $0.00.  There is a catch,
|>however.
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| This has been done.  Someone went through the RHEL files and carefully
| replaced all the artwork that was not redistributable, and put the
| results online.  It didn't seem to affect RHEL's sales.
|

I buy my Linux disks for the effort the vendor puts into making a
consistent and stable distribution, and for the ongoing and tested
patches that come with. And for the flashy upgrader, when the time
comes to catch up with the real world. I happen to be running SuSE
at the moment, and they specifically allow free download of the
stuff you can also pay money for; but frankly, the boxed set is
not expensive enough for me to bother. I like having the disks
around.

I'm not opposed to paying money for software, and I would not be
opposed to people selling Icarus Verilog. People sometimes forget
that in the early days of the GPL, this was explicitly encouraged.

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