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Re: Open source - Free software
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Al Klein |
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Re: Open source - Free software |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:11:45 -0400 |
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:18:14 -0400, Barry Margolin
<barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>I think it is. Note that I was talking about "free software", the term
>coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, not
>"freeware", which is just software you don't have to pay for.
"Free Software" is open source. Free software, like free milk, is
something you aren't charged for. It's a shame they chose such an
ambiguous word.
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- Re: Open source - Free software, Al Klein, 2006/09/29
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- Re: Open source - Free software, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, 2006/09/27
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- Re: Open source - Free software, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, 2006/09/29
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- Re: Open source - Free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/09/28
- Re: Open source - Free software, Barry Margolin, 2006/09/28
- Re: Open source - Free software, Roger Johansson, 2006/09/28
- Re: Open source - Free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/09/28
- Re: Open source - Free software, Al Klein, 2006/09/28
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