also sprach Michael Holzt <kju@fqdn.org> [2002.05.26.1826 +0200]:
> No! Free Software does not mean and has never meant zero cost.
> (Re-)adding 'also' is just plainly wrong there.
>
> Free Software is about Freedom and not about Free Beer.
it's about both. if i roll out 20 debian workstations in a company
rather than 20 win2k boxes, i save a shitload of money.
put it this way: freedom and free beer... which one do you think is
the selling factor? yes, free beer. now do you have to pay for debian?
no! i know that one *can* pay for it, but one doesn't have to. that's
the reasoning.
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