[hsflinux] What about FREE Sortware and people colaboration!?!?

[Manuel Alguacil]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuel Alguacil" <manuel.alguacil.ext at juntadeandalucia.es>
To: "Marc Boucher" <marc at linuxant.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hsflinux] What about FREE Sortware and people colaboration!?!?


     I know what you try te say, but try to think in the consumers too.
 Perhaps an enterprise could make an efford to buy a driver after they've
 bougth a computer, because it is a really low cost for them. But what
happen
 with the rest of the world!!! The only thing a person with a normal salary
 can think is that you have spend a lot of money buying a PC and now you
have
 to spend more. Why? Because if don't, you could not be able to make
 something works. An enterprise can spend a lot of money. The rest of the
 mortals, no.

     Perhaps you are thinking that a few dollars is not much money for this,
 but think how many moneny I have spend now. I don't want this chain of
 costs.

     And finally, why to develop a free software helped with the experiences
 of lot of people, and when the product starts to work someone want people
to
 pay for it???? What about all those person who made their contribution to
 get a better driver, and nowm if want the best driver you have to pay for
 it. Linux and OpenSource spirit is not that. In driver "serial.c" it said
 that the code is based in the one developed by Linus Torvalds. What about
 use opensource to produce new software and sell it. I think this is not
 correct and if you want to develop free software, do it, but do not sell it
 them...