Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!psuvax1!blitz!flee From: flee@blitz (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: free versions of complex software (Re: So let's talk about FSF) Message-ID: <3969@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 18:37:18 GMT References: <780@proxftl.UUCP> <600@sering.cwi.nl> <2133@stpstn.UUCP> <8329@bigtex.uucp> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: flee@blitz.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 7 Sigh. Can we agree that quality is not related to price? The marketplace can act as a quality filter, but other factors (e.g., marketing) confuse the issue. If an author wants to give away his wonderful piece of software, I'm not going to argue that it's too good for freeware and he should sell it instead. "Free" is no better than "commercial". Just cheaper. -- Felix Lee flee@blitz.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!flee