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> It has been stated here on gnu.misc.discuss and elsewhere
> that the definition of "free" wrt gnu means unencumbered
> so that people are "free" to use existing source code NOT
> "free" as in cost.

=o= "Cost" is too imprecise a term here.  You don't have to
pay for GNU software, but there is a price:  you can't make
money off of it by withholding the source.

=o= The real problem with the word "free" is that there is
an ideology shared by conservatives and Libertarians which
holds "the freedom to maximize profit" above just about
everything else.  (Many netfolk come from rather privileged
backgrounds and never had to worry about the everything else;
thus we see this ideology held and advocated by disproportionate
numbers of netfolk.)  Even though it is quite possible to use
GNU software to make a profit, you can't maximize those profits
by withholding the source.

=o= Thus, many netfolk gripe that it's not "free."
    <_Jym_>