[CS-FSLUG] Re:comercial Christian Software for Linux

[Don Parris]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:59:17 -0500, Bradly McConnell
<bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:14:52 -0800, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:44:11 -0500, Don Parris
> > <evangelinux at matheteuo.org> wrote:
> > > commercially.  Did you know that RMS originally sold EMACS for a
> > > handsome sum?  I do have problems with something be made proprietary.
> >
> > The Free Software Foundation still does something similar... how does
> > $5000 sound for the "Deluxe Distribution Package"
> > (https://agia.fsf.org/order/)?
> >
> > David
> 
> Not bad really - if you consider some of the licensing fees for Cray
> or the old SGI Irix.  It says for "your computing platform" so I guess
> it would be a viable option for those type systems.  Definatly
> overkill for x86 :)  Aside from raising funds for FSF, you are paying
> for the work, and not the software anyway, since you could build it
> from source yourself.
> 
> Brad
> 
Thanks for pointing this out!

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