From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 19 11:39:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09592 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scam.xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09587 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) Message-Id: <199812191939.LAA09587@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 6199 invoked by uid 27268); 19 Dec 1998 19:40:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 1998 19:40:37 -0000 To: "Scott Spies" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How free is free? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:26:50 -0900." <000101be2b85$8d0ae9e0$963fcd98@cryo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <6196.914096437.1@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:40:37 -0800 From: "Jay Nordwick" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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