The Dink Network

That's depending on whether or not you view his product as the software on the disk or the disk itself. There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling digital media containing, really, anything. And since anything on the CD's will be open-source or freeware, it would be very difficult to prosecute for copyright infringement, piracy, etc. Also, it's kind of a service to have these things on a CD for the people who don't have broadband access and can't download 400mb files as quickly as the rest of us. I'd be pretty happy if some of my freeware software was sold this way. People would use the freeware version and be encouraged to step up and buy my products that aren't freeware. And, Linux could gain a lot of support through this. It's a hand-in-hand, mutualistic relationship. Besides, $1 isn't much