In article <BstKFM.Kzz@acsu.buffalo.edu> jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS) writes:
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>In article <3480@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
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>>setup is ready when Linux matures. The price we are shooting for is 
>>.95(plus sales tax for California residents) and a cost to resellers
>>and institutions of .00 (in quantities of 5 or more).
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>Why should anyone buy more than 1 copy from you? If everything is freely
>distributable, they could arguably spend  for a copy, then make their
>own copies to sell; total Linux anarchy :)
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Maybe students would want their own set of diskettes/updates, and
manuals.  Sure they could just copy the diskettes/manuals, and then
go to school for their updates, but $60.00 is not unheard of if it
helps your school work.  (I just took a Probability Class the book
was about half and inch thick and cost $70.00, I would have much
rather spent the money on Linux, and I probably would have learned
more. :D )



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>I have been a consultant, VAR, and straight reseller for several years, but
>am not well versed in what laws surround this - if you take code and source
>that is free to all and bundle it, you can *only* sell it for distribution
>costs, correct? Can you enforce a "right" to that package that it can only
>be sold by you or through your authorized agents? If not, you may be
>wasting a lot of time and money, and the money of others as well. 


I am interested in this as well.  I was reading a strange magazine at 
work, by strange I mean it was basically all on hardware I don't know
how it ended up on my desk, and I saw that someone was selling the Gnu-C
compiler, with utilites for $500.00!  The add made it sould like the
company doing this had written some utilites for using GCC, but still
I thought Copyleft protected stuff like this.  Does anyone know how
all this works??????

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