Charging for such services is widely seen as a valid means of establishing revenue models around FOSS. Remember, it's free as in speech, not necessarily beer. They might want to do a better job of clarifying the aspects of free software in offering the service, however. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Tony Biondo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyb@tonybox.net">tonyb@tonybox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://hhh.freeculture.org/2009/gnulinux-installations/" target="_blank">http://hhh.freeculture.org/2009/gnulinux-installations/</a><br>
It seems they plan on charging for GNU/Linux installations.<br>
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I'm not saying this is a bad thing, I'm curious of other people's<br>
opinions.<br>
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On one side, its bad and is charging for something that is free, and not<br>
teaching them about the value of free things. On the other side, it<br>
could produce money for the cause, and satisfy the people who insist<br>
'nothing of value is free' (and then shock them after they realize it<br>
*was* free).<br>
<br>
Anyway, what are your thoughts on this?<br>
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-Tony Biondo<br>
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p.s. Sorry about blank email before, accidentally hit send.<br>
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