Re: is Debian GNU/Linux free
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:43:43PM +0300, Suat Secgin wrote:
> To whom it may concern
>
> I am sending this mail from Turkey.I would like to ask the price of Debian
> GNU/Linux.Because, I am under the imagination that,The company which has
> sold the two CD (Linux Debian GNU Bytes1 and bytes two)to my company quotes
> a higher price such as 1800 USA $ for these two CD. This company claimed
> that this two CD includes a strong firewall and proxy. Are all this
> information true..I am in doubt of being deceived. IF you helped me, i would
> be very gratefull to you..
Debian GNU/Linux is free, as in free-speech and free-beer. You can
download it for free from ftp.debian.org and mirrors across the globe.
You can even download the CD images from mirrors listed on
http://cdimage.debian.org/.
Now, this retailer may have added commercial software to the CD's, but
that isn't done by Debian. I have never seen firewall and proxy software
for Linux that costs $1800 USD though. Debian GNU/Linux has firewall and
proxy software included with the stock version (IOW, free).
Ben
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