Question about charge for source CD distribution.

[Henrik Nordström]

fre 2011-12-16 klockan 23:46 +0000 skrev Ralph Corderoy:

> Alan Sugar's Amstrad came up with a fee of £25 for a CD of the Linux
> kernel source to their videophone, after some effort persuading them
> they had to make it available.  That seemed to be more about dissuading
> anyone from asking for it;

I don't consider £25 as completely unreasonable, but naturally the
higher the charge the higher the expectations on correct 

> it was quite a bit compared to the hardware
> that dropped to £50 IIRC.

The price of the binary distribution is irrelevant to the source
distribution.

> (The phone provided an after-sales revenue
> stream to Amstrad so was sold cheap.  That kernel edits could
> theoretically cut off this stream didn't please them.)  Naturally, the
> CD didn't contain the same source as the shipped binaries and promises
> to improve this came to nothing.

Ouch. Do they still distribute the product in question? Or other
products with similar issues?

Regards
Henrik