🚀 go-pugleaf

On 13 Jan 92 11:49:10 GMT,
mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) said:

m> By "completely free", I mean free in the conventional sense, rather than
m> the highly specialized and misleading GNU sense.

Like free speech?  Goddam those highly specialized and misleading founding
fathers!!

Webster's New World Dictionary:
	free, adj. fre'er, fre'est
		1. not under the control or power of another; having
		   liberty; independent
		2. having civil or political liberty
		3. able to move in any direction; loose
		4. not burdened by obligations, debts
		5. not confined to the usual rules [free verse]
		...
		9. no cost or charge
		...

Or, mathew, you can consult your own dictionary.

It's a sad commentary when people come to assume that FREE means no monetary
cost instead of a reference to freedom or liberty.  (this is going in my .plan
file :-)

m> ... look at MINIX.  It's commercial, not freely-redistributable, but
m> source is provided.

Minix is an example of a product that is specifically targeting university and
teaching environments.  Its marketability would be severely reduced if source
was *not* provided.  We researched it as a possible commercial delivery os and
gave up pretty fast.  It is not designed for the full commercial market.  We
settled on Esix (shudder).

One example mathew.  One.  And not a good one.

Actually as an aside.  I am looking for folks that have tried the new BSD4.4
i386 release.  *Please* send me a message if so.  Thanks.

gray