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[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:01:53AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Ask your neighbor, if he would pay USD600 for a barrel of "free beer".

I think you fundamentally miss the entire point of free software here.

Lots of people will pay for "free" beer in the sense that free means the
recipe is published and you could go make your own. They don't want to make
their own beer at the moment and they understand either intuitively or directly
the most basic concepts of economics like specialisation.

Alan