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::: Great. Thank you for fixing it up so [[oscilloscope]] is (as far as I can tell) both accurate and useful to our readers. --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 05:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 
::: Great. Thank you for fixing it up so [[oscilloscope]] is (as far as I can tell) both accurate and useful to our readers. --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 05:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 
:::: Hi. I don't agree. I'm a simple free software user. The [[oscilloscope]] page is not accurate in my opinion. I read your discussion, studied the [http://www.baudline.com baudline web site], studied the pages on gnu.org web site about [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html free software] and specificaly [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Selling Free Software].
 
:::: I quote here, from the latter page, the two first paragraphs of the last section titled "High or low fees, and the GNU GPL" on this page in the english version ("Updated: $Date: 2012/06/10 08:06:17") : "Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It's up to you, and the marketplace, so don't complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy. The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay—such as a billion dollars—and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source in order to ensure the user's freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them".
 
:::: in the case of the software called "baudline", the source code is not available for everyone because of its price (unknown but "expensive") AND because of the restriction to those being acceptable as clients of the source code, as we can read on the [http://www.baudline.com/source_code.html baudline page titled "source code"] : "it is intended for qualified corporate or institutional buyers".
 
:::: I searched for web sites redistributing the boadline source code and found nothing.
 
:::: Thus, the user's freedom of being able to read the source code is not given, as far as I can see, and I condider that the pretention to apply the GPL licence is abusive.
 
:::: Thank you to let me modify this page and express my opinion.
 
  
 
== David: An Interesting Comment you made ==
 
== David: An Interesting Comment you made ==

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