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I've just been looking that up, funnily enough. It's apparently £30 a year, which seems pretty good, especially since that would give me access to things like Early English Books Online and all the back issues of the Times back to day one. As a citizen of Lancaster, I can use the books in the library, but not take them out, for free.
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I like Matt Stone and Trey Parker's line of thinking. Here's part of an interview they did with Reason Magazine at the end of '06.
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Thanks - not something I've come across.
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Hi, I've written a number of books (novels, short stories, non-fiction, and collections of poems) that are free at www.memoware.com and .99 each at the Kindle store. Eleanor (Eleanor Lincoln Morse) and I started our own press to produce books which we sometimes sell and sometimes give away. It is my view that artists are responsible for delivering their work. If publishers decide that they cannot profit from your work, then you need to complete the loop yourself. So far, my books have been downloaded over 65,000 times, all over the English speaking world. This has been much more satisfying than accumulating rejection slips. Those who can make a living doing what they love are lucky. More power to them. Thankfully, the internet gives many of us an alternative way to be read. John Moncure Wetterau.
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thanks for the link, checking out the selections now
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In the field of software, I don't think anyone can make the claim that sales price is related to quality. Take UNIX, for example. One cannot call BSD "UNIX," but it is. And the BSDs are better than any commercial UNIX that ever existed, even though the commercial UNIX source licenses were $65K and up. In fact, BSD contributed something like 95% of the actual code base for the old AT&T "commercial" SVR.... |
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It is also true that most free/open source is general and or developer driven. Also, may developers that work on BSD, Apache, Linux etc are paid! Quote:
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Also, no Apache and BSD are NOT Line-of-business software... they are OS/Platform apps. Yes, they are used in business. When I said "line-of-busines" I mean, Payroll, Accounting, HR, CRM, Warehousing, Dispatching, Logistics, Fixed Assests, Bank Software, Insurance software, Mortgage Company software, etc. Quote:
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Why can't you call BSD "Unix"? Is "Unix" a trademark?
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Unix is officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as Unix or Unix® with small caps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
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