Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 17:20:54 02/16/03
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On February 16, 2003 at 05:52:32, Rajen Gupta wrote: >i wonder if someone can let me know how a commercial company which sells LINUX >(eg red hat)is any different fom someone selling EGTB on e bay. i thought both >of the above (eg linux) as well as nalimov EGTB are freeware and hence cannot be >sold at all. You can't sell the Linux kernel, but that's not what Redhat does. There is a fine distinction between a Linux distribution and a Linux kernel. Also, a company is allowed to put it on CD and sell it for a reasonable fee (i.e. charging for reproduction cost and operating costs and such). That is not the case here. The guy selling the EGTBs is charging around $35 for the CD set, and it's costing him no more than $2 or so to produce the set. >my understanding was that the commercial companies can do so because they they >have packaged the product togehether; provide instructions/support on >installation and maintenance; You can always sell support services. >te person selling the EGTB may only be profiting on the fact that he has taken >the trouble to download and verify all the files; ensure that they are not >corrupt and install and work properly and provide instructions on installation >and any file modifications that maybe necessary; and provide evryhing in a neat >and convenient package. he could quite legitimately claim that he is providing >all the EGTB files completely free If the EGTB files are free, $35 is pretty expensive for 12 CDRs and some bandwidth. >till i actually had broadband i found it impossible to ever download any of the >files and had considered buying the entire 12 CD set from either gambit soft or >convecta (who were providing an identical service). i had in fact placed an >order with gambitsoft (as it so happened they were in the process of going bust >so i did not actually spend any money) I believe it was implied that they obtained permission from Eugene to do so. (I have no idea.) -Matt
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