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Article #63213Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source
From: Joe Buck
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 17:19
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 17:19
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dje@cygnus.com (Doug Evans) writes: >People must get bored of hearing "it's not Free as in free beer but Free >as in free speech" over and over and over; and yet the point still doesn't >always get across. Fortunately, other languages generally don't have this problem: the "Free" in the name would translate in Spanish to "libre", not to "gratis". -- -- Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> (not speaking for Synopsys, Inc) Phone: +1 415 694 1729
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