[CoLoCo] Ubuntu at Best Buy

David Overcash funnylookinhat at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 01:16:57 BST 2008


+1

: )

Of course they can.  You're confusing "free as in beer" with "free as
> in freedom".  Best Buy can't take away the freedom for anyone to
> distribute copies of whatever open source software Bust Buy put on the
> CD, or the freedom to modify and resell, etc.  But they, and anyone
> else, can sell it for whatever price they want.  If Canonical tried to
> limit Best Buy's right to do that, Canonical would be the one that got
> in legal trouble :)
>
> And I think that's a good thing - just don't buy it if you don't think
> it is a good deal.
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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