[Klug-general] slightly off topic?

[George Prowse]

Peter Childs wrote:
> 2009/5/9 Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/5/9 Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk>
>>> P.S. I don't mean to sound like I'm anti open source, far from it
>>> obviously... However I would like to remind people that not everything
>>> has to be open source, and sometimes free as in beer is fine.
>>
>> I strongly agree!
>>
>> Some people go overboard sometimes with the Open Source love to spite their
>> own nose.
>> That's why I love Skype, for example, it's free as in beer and works. Most
>> importantly works on everything, including my phone.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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> 
> Hmm I don't think you meant that.
> 
> Skype is Free as in No Cost, Not Free as in Beer which generally means
> your free to make it and we will the recipe is freely available,
> However you will be charged for any materials, distribution costs. If
> you use Skype to make calls to other phones you still have to may for
> them, and You certainly can't use skype to make your own version,
> 
> Same as Google Maps really, Its free to use but your tied about things
> you can do with it and we will not show you are base data or how we
> use it.
> 
> Old Story. Free != Open.
> 
> There are bounds where I can charge you for Linux...
> 
> Peter.
> 
Open is overrated in the FOSS community, sometimes no-cost is best