[ale] GAH

[Vincent Fox]

How did I get to be the devil's advocate in this?

I can go down to the nearest creek and dip my cup in and
take a drink. Or I can pay $1 to get bottled water from a vending
machine and already cold.

You and I may find this amusing but I find nothing unethical in
charging money for something that may be free but someone is
providing it in a convenient format and location. There's
probably some few people who will pay for this, and why not?
It's a free country.

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:48:09PM -0400, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> There is a significant difference between including it in a text book
> and selling just the text of it for $3.00 in a "protected" format.
> 
> Hell, it seems that no one even knows what the fourth ammendment is
> about.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:17:37PM -0400, Vincent Fox wrote:
> > 
> > Oh come now, America excels in selling public items in fancy packages.
> > You can get a text copy for free of course, but plenty of books
> > have been sold with the Constitution and of course some history
> > text thrown around it. I have several in a box in storage.
> > Were they free? Nope.
> > 
> > Not that very many actually READ it, whether free or not.
> > I'd bet 999 out of a 1000 people couldn't tell you what
> > the 3rd amendment is about.
> 
> -- 
> 
> I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds
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