From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 19:41:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ntserver.servcom.com (ntserver.servcom.com [209.165.170.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A118414DE0 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spiess@servcom.com) Received: from cryo1 (cable-103-19-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.19.103]) by ntserver.servcom.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-39206U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA203; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:33:47 -0800 Message-ID: <000701becc0f$ce7c9740$6713ed18@anchorageak.net> From: "S Spies" To: "Gary Kline" Cc: References: <000201becc00$851a1d20$1c12ed18@cryo2.anchorageak.net> <19990711175756.A20618@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: How free is free? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:39:46 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry about the outdated message--it's the result of starting up a PC that's been out-of-service since December (hence the date) while connected to the LAN. I had no idea the message was still in the outgoing mailbox. Oddly enough, I'll be installing Linux on that very PC once I get the hardware in order. Thank you for responding, though! Again, my apologies, Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Kline To: Scott Spies Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 4:57 PM Subject: Re: How free is free? > On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 07:48:38PM -0900, Scott Spies wrote: > > Thank you all for the vast array of answers, ranging from perfectly > > intelligent in content, to flame. My question wasn't an attack. It was > > just a legitimate concern. I know nobody's going to give away free CDs. I > > also know there are things such as advertising, etc. involved. I had only > > wondered why such a high price on a convenience item, and you all answered > > my question rather thoroughly. I don't think this warranted a response such > > as: > > > > < > and they have to make money to survive. > > also cds cost money too..>> > > > > Hi, > > I think that most (if not all) the flames you may have received > were from the hot-head side of the -questions list. The rest of > us are reasonably level-headed... > > gary kline > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message