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To: Señor Zorro

I’m not the one playing tricks of course, I’ve once again simply exposed free software advocates claiming false analogies exist in their attempt to defend “copyleftist” theories. Neither razors or printers are given away for free, by anyone, and any attempted claims they are remain completely false.


33 posted on 01/23/2008 11:01:24 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle; Señor Zorro; ShadowAce
Yes ladies and gentlemen you to can get your GE Xray specs!

With this amazing product you can turn:

"The printers themselves are sold pretty cheap"

Into:

"If you have evidence of any printers being given away for free"

And if you act now well send you these ignorance pills so you actually believe the tripe... Complete obtuseness not included may cause dizziness and symptoms similar to lead poisoning..

34 posted on 01/24/2008 12:29:25 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Golden Eagle
Neither razors or printers are given away for free, by anyone, and any attempted claims they are remain completely false.

I made no claim that printers were given away. You did that on my behalf. <sarcasm>Thank you ever so much</sarcasm>

I’m not the one playing tricks of course,

Trick is far too generous a term for what you do. Knocking down straw men doesn't require any tricks--or intelligence.

I’ve once again simply exposed free software advocates claiming false analogies exist in their attempt to defend “copyleftist” theories.

This has nothing to do with "copyleft". This is about a business model that is fairly common, regardless of whether the software in question is open source or proprietary. Only the big dogs, like Microsoft or Oracle, make their money on actual license sales. Medium to small software shops still make the lion's share of their cash from support. It isn't that they don't charge for licenses, but rather that the real money is keeping the client hooked on 24/7/365 support.

44 posted on 01/28/2008 2:37:13 PM PST by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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