Buy Ubuntu for R120?

Well they're pretty clear:

"Items contained on this CD are distributed freely and globally under the terms of the GNU Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and are available on the public domain as freeware."

You could do it too if you wanted. Is it a bit steep, sure, but what's the issue if they aren't doing anything illegal? People that install ubuntu know it's free. They must have a good reason to buy it.
 
R120 and it doesn't even include the shipping.

I guess R120 is pocket change if you rely on mobile data.
 
Well you must be dumb to buy this. It is perfectly legal though to sell free software. Only thing thats not alowed to be touched is Ubuntu name and logo that are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.
 
AFAIK you may not sell the software, but you may charge for the media you use to distribute it.

Our charge covers handling, packaging & distribution costs, we also provide an
after sales service.
Quite clear in the description. Wonder what after sales service they provide.
 
AFAIK you may not sell the software, but you may charge for the media you use to distribute it.

http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing

All application software in both main and restricted must meet the following requirements:

Must allow redistribution. Your right to sell or give away the software alone, or as part of an aggregate software distribution, is important because:
You, the user, must be able to pass on any software you have received from Ubuntu in either source code or compiled form.
While Ubuntu will not charge licence fees for this distribution, you might want to charge to print Ubuntu CDs, or create your own customised versions of Ubuntu which you sell, and should have the freedom to do so.
Must not require royalty payments or any other fee for redistribution or modification.It's important that you can exercise your rights to this software without having to pay for the privilege, and that you can pass these rights on to other people on exactly the same basis.
Must allow these rights to be passed on along with the software. You should be able to have exactly the same rights to the software as we do.
 
Selling Linux media isn't new, but I think my main gripe was the price. R40 + shipping sounds more reasonable to me. I guess the point is R120 is reasonable to someone else, if they don't have decent internet.
 
I agree that they are taking people for a ride, but if they offer support and it is included in the price, then it is reasonable.

Who here is going to take this for a test run?
:D
 
Selling Linux media isn't new, but I think my main gripe was the price. R40 + shipping sounds more reasonable to me. I guess the point is R120 is reasonable to someone else, if they don't have decent internet.

Can't remember how much I used to pay but I got a few distros from OS2 back in the day, it was the most cost effective way back then:

RH8.png

There was another local company providing "official" silk screened media but they were more expensive
 
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Before I had uncapped, paid about R70 from a guy (collected it, so shipping wasn't an issue). I don't mind paying someone for the media, bandwidth etc.

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Can't remember how much I used to pay but I got a few distros from OS2 back in the day, it was the most cost effective way back then:

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There was another local company providing "official" silk screened media but they were more expensive

I received quite a few CDs from Ubuntu themselves when it went public.
 
Problem then came that I didn't have internet at home and knew very few Linux geeks so the learning curve was quite steep and unrewarding


On day, that will be akin to saying "When I was your age, we never had indoor facilities - if we needed the toilet, we had to go outside."

Years ago, I got a Red Hat install CD (thinking around 1996) and it had a PDF to Learn Unix in 24 Hours. It took a little longer, and I still haven't learnt.
 
This seems illegal though :erm:
http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/8619...ATOR_4_PC_LAPTOP_1000_OF_GAMES_ON_ONE_CD.html
http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/9021..._FI_BOOKS_EPUB_eBooks_on_CD_software_NEW.html

I have no problem with "sharing is caring", but profiting from works of others is a definite no-no.

The famous saying about Free Open Source Software is that it is "Free as in Free Speech, not Free as in Free Beer."

I'm not going to reference specific licenses here but generally speaking, the spirit of the Free Software movement is that you are free to do what you want (within certain conditions of the license) including give it away, modify it, create derivative works from it and yes, even sell it.

You could do this, I could do this, even someone buying these disks could resell them under the same conditions.

If you did sell a Free product under the GPL, you wouldn't be under any obligation to necessarily add any value to the product such as providing support, training, customisation or implementation but charging for these might be part of your business model.

As has been mentioned, providing media to people who don't have the means to download for themselves or spending time to compile a collection of software or e-books in itself adds value. You could even argue that these people are marketing, promoting and distributing this content to a wider audience which adds value to the originators of the products indirectly.

If the seller were in breach of the terms of the license or were deliberately misleading in some way that might be wrong but selling Free Open Source Software in itself is not ripping people off.

On the flip side, I believe that there was a company recently that was re-selling the Flightgear open source flight simulator (possibly rebranded I'm not sure.) In this case, I don't think the company was in breach of the letter of the law or the licensing of the software but way in which it was marketing was perhaps not up front about the open source nature of the software.

EDIT: Public apology to Keeper for quoting your comment without reading your links carefully enough. Please everyone read my comment in the context of the thread generally.
 
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Dude, owning roms to games you do not own is illegal - selling them is even worse!

selling roms together with mame is also against mame license!
 
Dude, owning roms to games you do not own is illegal - selling them is even worse!

selling roms together with mame is also against mame license!

Where were we talking about mame and ROMS?
 
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