Hello Tony I am not a representative of Debian. But I am a user of it. I am responding to the note you posted to the debian-user list.
> I am trying to acquire a pricing quote on a single copy Debian/GNU Linx > Open Source OS software, BUT I know I will need to go to a 3rd party > vendor. As you have already surmised Debian is not a company which sells software. Debian is an organization which develops and packages software and then makes it available for free. Here is a good reference on Debian. http://www.debian.org/intro/about Debian is a free operating system for your computer. In this case the part you care about is that the "free" means free of cost. To us it most importantly means free as in freedom, not price. Without constraints you are free to use the software without restrictions. Please see this reference for a more detailed explanation. http://www.debian.org/intro/free You are asking about a price quote for our free software. It is free. Really! You may download it without cost from the many different distributions sites listed. However, manufactures of physical cdrom media may charge for their costs of manufacturing and distribution. You may buy a CD containing Debian from one of the many vendors listed below. You are buying the media and the convenience of having Debian on it from a CD vendor. This is not the same thing as buying Debian which may be had without charge. The list below is only a partial listing and other vendors not listed also make media with Debian on it available. http://www.debian.org/distrib/ I understand that you may be requiring physical media instead of downloading it for free from the Internet. In which case I would purchase a set from one of the many companies that sell cdroms. Many are listed here as referenced in the above page. http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > My question is, do you know if your company, Debian, has done > business with The Boeing Company before? If so, can you please > supply me with some information on previous orders, Thanks for your > help! Since CD manufactures will usually only charge a nominal fee the cost of a box set of media is usually less than $20 dollars. Though I have never bought a set myself and different vendors vary in the costs they charge. Boeing is a large company and almost certainly Debian is in use within your organization. But because Debian is distributed free for anyone to download and use it is not possible for us to know who is using it. I can imagine that this message from you comes in response to someone within your company specifying Debian and now you are needing to deduce a cost for it. But almost certainly whomever noted Debian already has a copy of it and therefore has no need to actually obtain it again. Therefore perhaps you are already done. Hope that helps. Bob Speaking only for myself. -- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.proulx.com/~bob/ CP-ASEL-IA-Tailwheel-Glider -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
