--- jtdyahoo jtdesouza@yahoo.com wrote:
this by providing tools of the information age free of cost and encumberances in the form [snip]
^^^^^^^^^^^^That's NOT why GNU chooses to offer stuff free of cost. In fact, it doesn't offer free of cost, unless you download from FTP or go and beg them for a CD or other medium. The cost at which you can obtain the stuff is reasonable, and worth it.
Downloading - not counting your phone/pipe/cable bills - or borrowing (both of which are permitted by the GNU licences) is free of cost. Beg?? you dont even have to register for a download.
How do you download a CD? I was talking about CDs, and you don't expect them to give you one for free! They're obviously going to charge you!
The Linux kernel and most of the accompanying software is provided with source code and is essentially free of cost. Thus it is possible to customise and reuse all of the code.
It is possible and legal to customise and re-use NOT because it is free of cost, but because of the way the programs are licensed.
Yes. Must improve the english.
You don't need to clarify now. Your English is okay, just that you shouldn't be using _free_of_cost_ too often.
They offer you some 4 freedoms, which Philip has mentioned in an earlier post. Please do not confuse the cost factor with the freedom to customise.
Nope. But in India (and most underceveloped regions) both are equally important (IMHO), more so in a capital constrained country like India. The cost factor is particularly important for
My idea is to (try to) _sell_ Free Software. I won't confuse poor people.
I think open source end-user software will turn
out to be a lot
cheaper for Indian user. At best, you can get it
Hardly a factor in most underdeveloped places. (A [snip] Maha and MP 100% piracy). A cursory check of DTP shops in the
With GNU/Linux, you don't have to live with guilt.
Manish
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