On 30-Jun-08, at 9:46 PM, Jasbir Khehra wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On 30-Jun-08, at 6:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > [snip] >> >> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can >> only be shared. >> > Bought any books lately?
yes - bought two, one on blender and one on django. Strangely enough, both books are available on the net for free download. Yet I forked out a total 49 euro for one and 39 usd for the other. The sharer of knowledge is entitled to be compensated for the cost of sharing. Note that if I had downloaded it, he would not have got that compensation. But since I prefer dead tree based material to digital stuff I gladly paid my contribution towards the work he did to document and communicate his knowledge and the money spent to inscribe this on dead trees. I also bought several books of fiction which are another type of thing altogether. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
