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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 15:43:35 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Endlisnis wrote:
>
> >     But, then how could they charge money for it, when you could get the
> > sources yourself?
> That's the usual argument against free software in general.  As others
> have written elsewhere, and as life itself proves, this argument is not
> really valid.  For example, Cygnus is one company that lives well selling
> software whose sources are free to download.
>
> In a nutshell, access to sources doesn't necessarily mean that everybody
> will want to start their own development based on that source.  Most
> people will still need binaries, support for solving problems, etc.

    I agree with what you say, but I don't think that MS does.  I doubt they
would every allow any current code to the public without extensive monatary
compensation.

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