[BadVista Advocate] "Free" software

Fri May 4 13:54:46 EDT 2007

Sunnz wrote:
> But once someone have 'purchased' one copy, he is free to dsitribute
> it with any number of people he wants, 100, 1000, whatever, and the
> guy who wanted to sell it can potentially only gets the money for the
> one copy he sells... kinda make it pointless to try sell any GPL
> software...

No is  not pointless, I can buy water then give it for free, I will will
buy the water or get it from a river...
some people likes commodity, some corporations don't have skilled IT
staff that will make their own distro or know how to support or even
install FreeSoftware.. they need
comercial distros like RedHat to function or if they are semi skill they
can download ubuntu and install it but they may still need to pucharse
the support contract,only hackers will not need any of this, still have
the choice to get a  stable support contract from someone else not the
main company you bough it, or download it from, but this give the
freedom of choice.. just like a house...
you can modify it if you wish, resell it or give it away for free, you
can contract other people to modify it if you don't have the time or the
experience.. is your choice.. but there is still a market and an economy
inside free software just not monopolized by one single vendor
there is always demand for anything even if people can get it or build
it from "Free of cost". wood comes to my mind.

people will always be willing to pay for quality... just because is free
as in freedom don't means corporations will not buy it.

>
> 2007/5/5, Jacob Maynard <indymaynard at maynard.homelinux.com
> <mailto:indymaynard at maynard.homelinux.com>>:
>
>     I didn't misunderstand free. I'm not sure you understood what I
>     said. GPL
>     allows you to sell your software, but you would still have to
>     release the
>     source code for it. And you could redistribute it, if the original
>     copyright owner got the price he was asking for. That's fair. I
>     wouldn't
>     have a problem paying, but I want the rights. I also want the
>     person/people who originally made it to be able to make a living
>     off of
>     it. Did this clear it up?
>
>     Jacob
>
>     > Jacob Maynard wrote:
>     >  > With the free-software title, the developers of games would
>     be required
>     > to
>     >> release the source code for their games with the purchase of
>     the game.
>     >> Not
>     >> okay it for free distribution after that.
>     >>
>     >> See, each person would have to buy a copy of this piece of
>     software. If
>     >> another company stole the code for the game, (and what are they
>     going to
>     >> steal? An "if then" statement? Tutorials for this are on the
>     internet.
>     >> Direct3D code? Also on the internet and even available from the
>     giant
>     >> themselves. OpenGL? Stress the word "OPEN." tutorials are all
>     over the
>     >> internet. It just matters how hard a person wants to work at
>     >> programming.)
>     >> they would be liable and would be infringing the
>     >> copyright/copyleft/license agreement. They could be sued. Anyone
>     >> releasing
>     >> the code for no-cost would also be infringing the license
>     agreement.
>     >> Therefore, programmers can still feed their kids.
>     >
>     > You seem to have misunderstood what we mean by free (as in freedom)
>     > software here. Out of the four
>     > essential freedoms, freedom 2 is the freedom to redistribute
>     copies, and
>     > freedom 3 is the freedom to
>     > distribute modified versions. Just because the source code for
>     the games
>     > you're talking about would
>     > be released, they wouldn't be free software, because they
>     wouldn't respect
>     > those two freedoms for
>     > the users.
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