what ever happened to linux?(Rep. Cleaver/immigration rants, etc.)

[Jon Pruente]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008, Jon Pruente wrote:
>> giving away the software
>
> Free software has nothing to do with giving it away. From the start, the FSF
> has encouraged free software developers to charge for the software they
> write.

I agree, but when asked why Canonical gives away Ubuntu (the current
new user favorite), one needs to be prepared to explain it.  The same
goes for most of the other big name distros that have both free to use
OSs and paid support..

Jon.