Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Random832]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017, at 11:18, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> You suggested that if he wasn't familiar with free software, his
> request that people send him a copy of Python wouldn't look so odd.
> Okay, if Python weren't free software, it would be non-free software,
> and you are saying that it wouldn't look so odd for somebody to join a
> mailing list and request a bunch of strangers to gift him a copy of
> non-free software.

The third possibility is that he believes that this list is official
in some corporate sense, that if he asks for the software and it is not
free he will receive a price quote.