thomasz just posted a link to this email from a KDE-on-Kubuntu user. Honest and heartfelt, it's one of the most beautiful things I've read in a while.

The person writing, Robert, bought his daughter a computer for her 14th birthday. He got what they could afford, and due to financial constraints that meant not much. Price often isn't the compelling selling feature for business users in the "first" world (gah, I hate that term), but for many others it is. In this case, it made all the difference. The best part is that this family is not getting cheated because they don't happen to have endless amounts of disposable income: they get to participate on their terms without limitation.

So just what difference does free-as-in-freedom software make? Robert speaks eloquently and clearly:

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