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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Friday, October 17, 2003 12:40:23 pm | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
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This article at SlashDot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210219) raised some interesting questions. The article, which was written by a [DSE] salesman[1] in NewZealand apparently, says that people wouldn't buy [Linux]-based computers, partly or mostly because they couldn't understand why the software was [free] (let alone [Free]). To them, obviously the software wasn't even good enough that the author(s) thought they could sell it!
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+''this article is no longer on NewsForge, anyone got a link? -- AlastairPorter''
!!So, why is the software free (and Free)?
There are the obvious "freedom to tinker" style arguments that we're familiar with - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
