Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:40:37 -0800 From: "Jay Nordwick" <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Scott Spies" <spiess@servcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How free is free? Message-ID: <199812191939.LAA09587@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:26:50 -0900." <000101be2b85$8d0ae9e0$963fcd98@cryo>
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>If FreeBSD is so free, then why is Walnut Creek CD-ROM selling it for $40? Think free speech, not free beer. It is free from proprietary licenses and gives you the internals of your system (if you think of a car, FreeBSD is the equivalent of being able to open the hood and poke at the engine, without fear of layers after you). Also, if you mean, $$$ free, then you can download it for free at www.freebsd.org. CDROM just provides a service of shipping you a CD (it takes a while to download) with many programs besides FreeBSD on it, too. -jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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