Re: [fsf-community-team] What's in a name............

[Marc Coevoet]

Diego Trujillo schreef:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have also had problems when explaining free software to people (even 
> in spanish where free (as in freedom) is 'libre' and free (as in free 
> beer) is 'gratis'). The most recent example is when I was invited to 
> contribute to a free software project and one of my friends said to me 
> "well you start producing free but one day you'll get paid for 
> non-free software." Even after explaining the price-liberty diference 
> he couldn't quite grasp it.


It is not always free/gratis ... It is the fact "OPEN" source code that 
is important.

Archimedes is open source, Euclides too, Newton and Einstein too.

Only rounded corners in windows can be patented.

A National Socialist would say "only artwork can be patented".

So, you, who want to invest in patents, be aware ;-)

Marc

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