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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Woozle wrote:

> On Monday 16 October 2006 12:00, internetworkers- 
> request AT lists.ibiblio.org
> wrote:
> > We have to make a go/no-go decision by October 19 (Thursday). Unless
> > more people register by Thursday, we'll have to cancel.
>
> I was interested at first glance... but, to be blunt, the price tag  
> was a bit
> off-putting. This is free, open-source software we're talking  
> about; the
> people who spent many hundreds or thousands of hours writing that  
> software
> (and its documentation, and the plug-ins and add-ons...) have  
> freely shared
> the results of their labors with the rest of us... and yet someone  
> still
> finds a way to extract income from what should be a free flow of  
> information
> surrounding those applications.

I don't have any experience with this particular trainer, but a lot  
of people benefit from training classes, and even if the software is  
open source, that doesn't mean that someone should have to spend  
thousands of dollars out of their own pocket to train people on it.  
The idea that it was ok to make money in the open source world has  
been there from the very beginning, and was the reason they chose to  
not use the name "free software" so as to avoid the confusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Open_source_software#Open_source_software_versus_free_software

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Michael Czeiszperger
Chapel Hill, NC
michael AT czeiszperger.org