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Article #5425Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)
From: Marco S Hyman
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 04:31
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 04:31
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In article <316@toylnd.UUCP> dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) writes:
Let us pose these statements in a slightly different though I would argue
equivalent fashion.
My bricks are free. If you use my bricks
I require anyone who you must compensate
uses any of my bricks <-> me.
in a building to give
away the building for
free.
As long as we're playing games... the GNU analogy, at least with emacs and
GCC, is quite different. I'd put it this way:
My tools are free.
You can use my tools
to make your own If you use my tools you must
building. However, compensate me. If you make
If you make the building <-> a building out of my tools
out of my tools you we'd better have an agree-
must then make the ment in writing.
building free also.
But it's really irrelevant. I have strong doubts that this thread will
change anybody's mind about shareware, GNUware, freeware, or any other type
of ware likely to appear in comp.sources.all.
// marc
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