Re: Hurd Mission Statement

[Da Zheng]

Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > > And adding these four letters suffices to tell them the essence
> > > without relying on previous knowledge:
> > >       
> > I don't agree. People not familiar with GNU philosophy will either
> > misread it, or ignore it alltogether.
> >     
>
> Do you mean the free/gratis/libre part? 
>
> I tend to forget about that... free has only one meaning in my mind ;) 
>
> But you're right. That isn't true for most people, and those would be 
> confused. And those who understand "free "also understand "GNU"... 
>
> I just had that problem again today: 
>
> me: "Is it free?" 
> other: "It's gratis for open source projects, so it's free."
> me: "That's isn't free."
>
> :-)
>
>   
I don't get it. Why do you think the open source project isn't free?

Zheng Da