Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Floyd Davidson
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 05:36

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In article <1992Jan27.194432.17271@datamark.co.nz> tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:
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>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".

Now who might it be that "still persist"?

Floyd
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   Floyd L. Davidson        floyd@ims.alaska.edu        Salcha, Alaska

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