On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:37:53 +0530, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) gishu.pillai@bently.com wrote:
Ok methinks it's time to Reply. I knew the meaning of Open Source... but then I prefer to think of it as follows If you "value" add on to the source and then charge a lil something, then it is quite ok.
But I don't think downloading the content of the 4 cds and then burning them onto CDs (I got a writer, so I don't wanna pay for this.), is VALUE-ADDITION.
So when someone (I don't care if it is Stallman) wants me to pay 5 times this, I am surely gonna ask him to take a hike..
If linus had started charging a fee for everything that he wrote, I don't think Linux would be half as popular as it is today.
If you think you are not getting value-addition, don't buy. Is that so difficult to understand ?? You can charge any amount for free s/w as long as the source is avaialble. If you don't like one vendor go to another. It's all about freedom of choice. People who like it and need it, will pay for it.