On Saturday 28 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 27-Jun-08, at 1:24 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
> wrote:
> > You should've used *non-free* instead of commercial, FOSS can be
> > sold, right ?
>
> cant be sold - a service can be offered around foss. Note that all
> foss developers charge service tax and not sales tax/vat

Yes, FOSS can be sold, if you find someone to buy it.  I sold (not 
serviced) the first copy of Linux in India, and if sales tax had been 
applicable back then in the mists of time, that's what I would have 
charged.

Regards,

-- Raju
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