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Re: Computers with Free Software Installed Save a Fortune

On Mar 12, 6:05 am, youkey...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mar 11, 9:49 pm, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> > > Pricing Free Software
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> > > ,----[ Quote ]
> > >> GNU TOOLCHAIN: $600.
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> > >> GCC (GNU COMPILER COLLECTION): $250.
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> > >> GNU OPERATING SYSTEM: $800-$1200 - complete and using a GNU kernel.
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> > >> LINUX KERNEL: $300.
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> > >> GNU/LINUX: $1000-$1500.
>
> > >> Much more free software is worth a pretty penny, but, the software
> > >> we listed above is free software. Free software is something that
> > >> has to exist, and thankfully it does. So we don't have to pay a cent
> > >> for this software, and we are free to do with it as we please,
> > >> excluding AVG. Free software should stay free, the GNU General
> > >> Public License (GPL) helps with that. If you're a software
> > >> developer, please consider releasing your source code under the GPL
> > >> or something like the GPL.
>
> > >> With that being said. It's possible for our prices to be biased,
> > >> because of the positive impression they have for letting us be free,
> > >> to use, modify, redistribute, and even sell the software.
>
> > >> And, the price we would pay for free software may not be what you
> > >> would pay for free software, this article is our budget for such
> > >> software. Please feel free to leave a comment with what you would be
> > >> willing to pay.
> > > `----
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> > >http://www.inatux.com/articles/Pricing%20Free%20Software
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> > The fact is, the freetard wouldn't pay one red cent if they weren't free.
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> > Talk's cheap, and so are Linux users: "$15 for ONE application is damned
> > expensive", Sylvester.n.Twe...@xxxxxxxxx, cola cheap-ass, 7/5/05
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> > Want more support for my claim?  Sure thing:
>
> >http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6c/Opensuse_survey_102_data_f...
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> > * 78% download it for free
> > * 85% do nothing but use the software (ie no contributing or bug reporting,
> > etc)
>
> OpenSuSE is one of the worst GNU/Linux distributions there is. They
> have their priorities in the wrong places. Ubuntu on the other hand is
> awesome, so is fedora, but I don't like KDE, so. Anyways.
>
> Of course 78% of them download it for free, it's FREE. Normal SuSE
> isn't, but that's not what you're talking about. And, there wasn't
> even the choice of saying you paid for it. Mainly because they can
> charge for it.
>
> And, GNU/Linux users are not cheap, we like being free, to do with OUR
> software as we please. You decay with your proprietary software than.

*Mainly because they CAN'T charge for it.*

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