[AT] OT- Computer help please

[Stephen Offiler]

Hi farmer:  don't worry, I've got a half dozen thumbdrives sitting here too
;-)  It was not the cost of a thumb drive that had me wondering.  I think
you are getting to the heart of the matter with the mention of legality.  I
guess what I've been wondering is, what justifies the $35 cost of that
"XtraPC" thumbdrive (not that you'd know the answer, just pondering here).
I have wondered whether it's not trivial to make a thumbdrive bootable, and
I have wondered whether those folks have some tricks up their sleeve that
justifies the cost and circumvents legal issues... or whether it's mostly a
scam.

SO



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>>> .Hi Stephen: I must be the odd one here, I have a half dozen USB drives
>>> laying on the table beside me.  :-)  I don't use them much on very old
>>> stuff anyway because many of the old systems don't have a USB boot option
>>> in the bios. I usually just burn a CD as bootable since most of the old
>>> systems have that option and a CD is dirt cheap. I'm  heading outside right
>>> now but I'll try to remember to look up the public licensing on that stuff.
>>> As I recall you are not supposed to sell public licensed material (most
>>> Linux) for more than the actual cost of the media and shipping. In other
>>> words you are not supposed to turn a profit selling it. Most of the legit
>>> offers seem to run more like $6 or $7...  I "think" that you can boot from
>>> the web in some cases but it's been too long since I was doing that much
>>> puttering and anything from before breakfast is pretty much gone.  :-)
>>>
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