Comment 123 for bug 1

On 6/5/06, Kellemes <email address hidden> wrote:
> I spend a fair amount of time developing sites and apps for organisations and friends etc.. for free, simply because they don't have the money and/or I want to support them.
> But I have to make a living don't I?

Ah, but just because you want/need to sell your software doesn't mean
that others must do the same thing. On the converse side, just because
the GiMP team makes their software available for free (as in beer and
speech) doesn't mean that Adobe cannot charge for Photoshop. Different
strokes for different folks.

I think that both paradigms get along fine. I have no problem shelling
out money for good software for my computer (e.g. I bought Quake IV
when it came out so I could play it on my Ubuntu machine). But I also
enjoy using a free (beer/speech) operating system, office package
(OO.o), personal information manager (Kontact), HTML editor
(Bluefish), music library (amaroK), blog software (Wordpress), etc.

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