Re: Is FSF software really free.

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 07:48

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In article <1991Feb1.220430.17074@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
berger@iboga (Mike Berger) writes:
>My only problem with it is one of semantics.  I wish they'd stop calling it
>"free".

Just remember that they mean it in a political sense.  I agree that the
ambiguity is annoying, but "Emancipated Software Foundation" just
doesn't have the same ring to it :).

-- 
Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
Visix Software Inc.					...!uunet!visix!amanda
--
"... a `target pistol' is not a `useful' thing either.  When was the last
 time you *needed* to use deadly force to protect yourself from a paper
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Subject: Re: Is FSF software really free.
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