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lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil) writes:

>>The CD costs $100 if you are an individual, $400 if you are a
>>business.  This is a distribution fee.  The software is `copylefted',
>>which means you have the the right to copy, change, and redistribute it.

>It seems to me that a "distribution fee" would be to recover the costs of
>distribution, which shouldn't differ for individuals vs. businesses. You're
>really stretching the "Free" in "Free Software Foundation" by marking up the
>CD-ROM cost 400% for businesses. I never would have expected such behavior
>from FSF, and am quite disappointed.


The whole idea behind the FSF hasn't been that the software was free, but
that your access to it was. You were given full source and are allowed to do
what you please with the software.

They have always stood behind the right to make a profit. Come on, if they
can't make money, then how do you expect them to continue. 

Try reading the GNU manifesto sometime, it explains some of this in more
detail. If you have read it before do read it again, because you obviously
missed the boat and the point.

James