UK Government Confiscates Firefox CDs

The idea that Free Software can be sold has some government officials perplexed. Times Online has the story of a UK Trading Standards officer contacted the Mozilla Foundation to report catching a business selling copies of Firefox. The officer confiscated the CDs with the intent to prosecute said business. When informed that such distribution was authorized, the officer first expressed disbelief that Free Software could be sold. They said 'If Mozilla permits the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation'.