Re: Open source - Free software

[David Kastrup]

Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> writes:

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:18:02 -0400, Barry Margolin
> <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>While it may be a shame, they've been using the phrase for about 20 
>>years now.  It's become part of the industry lexicon.  Similarly, we 
>>have the jargon "freeware" that refers to software distributed at no 
>>cost.  So there shouldn't be much ambiguity when the context is 
>>understood
>
> Since most people who use software aren't part of "the industry", and
> understand "free" to mean "without charge",

Whatever happened to the land of the brave and the free?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum