Juhan Leemet wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:55:00 +0200, Bernhard Kastner wrote:
> ...
>
>>>I think you both missed the point, you may not have spent a dollar on
>>>getting hold of a Linux distro...
>>>
>>
>>no, never.
>>I'm new to linux, and i never buyed any magazines. I used a flatrate to
>>download linux and the flatrate is financed by my dad ;)
>
>
> Jeez, what a mooch! 8^)
>
> Actually, I believe everyone should be trying their best to buy value =
> performance/price (often named the other way around). You shouldn't
> neglect the "cost" of your own time, though. As someone pointed out: time
> is the only truly non-renewable resource! We don't live forever, although
> you might be young enough that you may feel like you will. Sometimes you
> can accelerate/bootstrap yourself by spending some $ vs. a lot of time.
>
> I'm pretty cheap ...er, frugal, myself.
>
> p.s. The best line I heard on a guitar group, where someone commented on
> an American being "cheap", and noting that one American nickel has a
> buffalo on one side: "he's so cheap, he'll squeeze every nickel until
> the buffalo shits!" (or the other one "...until the Indian cries") Haw!
>
The point of "free" in Open Source is not meant "without monetary cost"
although a lot of people are attracted to linux for just that reason.
Personally I like "free" as in being able to do what I want, when I
want, without having to worry about violating someones EULA, or
copyright, or intellectual property. If I don't want a particular web
browser on my computer, I take it off. Period. If I want an application
that my particular distro doesn't have, I D/L the source and compile it
to suit me...with the options that I want, not what they want me to
have. Now THAT is free....free to choose, and that IMHO is what Open
Source is all about.

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