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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Selling Free Software is "Bad" -- 9:41 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Apparently selling CDs of Firefox can get you in trouble in Britain. A Mozilla staffer had a hard time getting the message through that that was perfectly acceptable. She argued that if this were the case "it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation." No, the problem is that they need to wrap their brains around the concept of open source. Are they going to start shutting down British mirror sites for Firefox, OpenOffice.org, or Linux itself? This is just further proof that folks like MS, the BSA, and others are winning the propaganda war. Thanks Slashdot.

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