Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 06 December 2017 11:28:22 Random832 wrote:

> 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.

Sadly, that an attitude even college profs don't get, having gotten their 
sheepskin with only M$ stuff, that something could be both free and 
good.

It's a concept that makes no sense to the teachers, so of course they 
don't teach it either.  Hell of a way to run a train.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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