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In article <1993Jan3.104835.29515@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.122330.18937@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>Semantic drift happens all the time, and it would be foolish for
>>anyone to attempt to countervail its natural forces.  However, I see
>>nothing wrong with objecting to a certain form of semantic reform,
>>which is being promulgated on hypocritically self-serving grounds of
>>protecting "my" rights.  I happen to have a vested interest in the
>>current meaning of the adjective "free"; if you happen to feel
>>otherwise, that is entirely your prerogative, and your problem.

GE:
>Pardon me, but isn't "I am not free to make free software not free!" a
>tautology, or something like that?

It is certainly not the former, in any logically meaningful sense; as
for the latter, yes, -- in approximately the same way a raven is
something like a writing desk.

GE:
>Give it up, already.  Let's call it the "Freely Available Software Foundation"
>and get back to work ...

Is it freely available from its maker then?

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cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."