Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Lieutenant 030
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1992 16:02

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floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
> In article <1992Jan27.194432.17271@datamark.co.nz> tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Th
> >However, they still persist in calling the software free - and they
> >use a definition of free which doesn't match a lot of other peoples
> >definitions.
> 
> Ho hum.  I just looked "free" up in the closest dictionary I
> could find.  There are 24 meanings listed for the word when
> used as an adjective.  The 17th one is "no charge or cost".

This is not the GNU use of the word "free".  GNU software can be sold for
as prohibitive a price as you like.


mathew

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