From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:20:36 +0200
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

>     But, then how could they charge money for it, when you could get the
> sources yourself?

That's the usual argument against free software in general.  As others 
have written elsewhere, and as life itself proves, this argument is not 
really valid.  For example, Cygnus is one company that lives well selling
software whose sources are free to download.

In a nutshell, access to sources doesn't necessarily mean that everybody 
will want to start their own development based on that source.  Most 
people will still need binaries, support for solving problems, etc.