When I was 15-16, me and a friend ordered CD-ROMs from CheapBytes and sold them in The Netherlands (with a label applied to cover the CheapBytes branding). Most people didn't have credit cards in the 90s, so this scheme worked well enough to earn us some additional 'pocket money'. The website is forever preserved by Tripod (at some point we stopped, but never removed the website):
We did get some complaints from people who were convinced that selling Linux distributions was illegal
I was a C.S. student at UNC-Wilmington when RedHat first launched, and I remember a lot of people were freaked out about that. They were just howling "they're SELLING Linux?!???!" Heh.
http://linuxlop.tripod.com
We did get some complaints from people who were convinced that selling Linux distributions was illegal ;).