🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <42034@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>You can do whatever you want with public domain software, legally.
>You can sell it, modify it, give it away, or whatever.

Ethical questions aside, this is correct.

>The result was that BMUG gave me a way to spend $80 on their disc to
>save much more than $80.  I come out ahead, and they make enough money
>(I hope) to pay for their costs and make enough profit to further their
>activities.  This seems quite reasonable to me.  And anyone who thinks
>that they are charging to much is free to go to the same sources BMUG
>went to and gather the same data and try to undercut them.

Very good!  I believe you now understand capitalism.  Producer X produces a
service or product, splitting any development (one-time) costs between many
consumers, so that the average consumer Y gets the service or product cheaper 
and doesn't have to produce it {him,her}self.