[ubuntu-my] First Malaysian OS?

[Shaiffulnizam Mohamad]

tq for the eye opener.. now i can look in better perspectives

2011/3/10 Abdullah Zainul Abidin <abdullah.zainul at gmail.com>

> Actually you can sell the product. The gpl does not stop you from doing it.
> But it does stop you from stopping others from distributing it. so you might
> sell your software but you can't do anything if the first thing your
> customer do is let people download it for free. That's the freedom that they
> have. Gpl is free as in freedom, not price.
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Abdullah Zainul Abidin
> On Mar 10, 2011 9:43 AM, "Shaiffulnizam Mohamad" <shaifful.md at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Free Open Source software should be redistribute using their original
> > license. No matter what you understand about the licensing model. What
> can
> > you sell is just the support for the products and not the software.
> Imagine
> > if I am one of the license owner of one bit of a code and then I want to
> sue
> > the seller, I can still sue them. Because it was already stated that my
> > piece of code should be redistributed in the same model as I have
> provided,.
> > Look closely into many of the commercialize Linux, most of them sell the
> > support. Not the products.
> > My 2 cents
> >
> > 2011/3/10 Mohammad Hafiz mypapit (9W2WTF) <mypapit at gmail.com>
> >
> >> IMHO, it is not a "scam"... but rather is a case of bad marketing
> publicity
> >> or a bad understanding of FLOSS license. We shouldn't go around and
> accusing
> >> people of scam when it is not obvious that they are doing so (prove,
> >> evidence of scam?).
> >>
> >> At most they are misunderstanding FLOSS License (GNU GPL, BSD license or
> >> whatever license in the package)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:23 PM, zarul shahrin <zarulshahrin at ubuntu.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Is this for real??????????????
> >>>
> >>> http://www.fimos.my/
> >>>
> >>> This is the biggest scam ever. Anyone has more info on this? I don't
> like
> >>> how they are marketing it and surely not gonna keep quiet and let
> people get
> >>> scammed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Zarul Shahrin
> >>>
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> >> Website : http://mypapit.net
> >>
> >> Yahoo ID: papit58
> >>
> >> Codes:
> >> http://code.google.com/u/mypapit
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> >>
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>
> >>
> >>
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