free?

[Peter Elsner]

Valerie

It is a FREE os...  You can freely download the ISO images
and burn them on to a CD using your CD-R/CD-RW drive.

CD media and jewel cases costs money...  The money that
these sites charge is not for the OS, but for the media (4 CD's)
and the jewel case, and the booklet insert.  In most cases, the
money is reverted back to the FreeBSD Project, which helps with
various costs.

Hope that settles your confusion.

Peter


At 04:35 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm a bit confused -- your website clearly states that freeBSD is a free
>OS, yet each of the sites that offer the CD charge money for it.  Am I
>missing something here?
>
>thanks,
>Valerie Andrewlevich
>vandrewlevich at momsandkids.org
>
>
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