Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFS web site

[Mark Preston]

I agree. Freedom 0 sounds silly.
FWIW, when I gave a lecture about free software I concocted the following
slide to define it. This worked quite well for a group of non programmers.
http://www.gnusense.uklinux.net/html/slide_2.html
If I'd started at 0, I know what I would have spent the rest of the lecture 
talking about!

On Thursday 01 May 2003 16:04, Andrew Savory wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > Would that be a solution that would work for people?
>
> To be honest, I really think having "freedom 0" anywhere in the list
> confuses matters. Regardless of how it's worded, it is bad English, it
> certainly wouldn't (normally) be used in speech, and it seems to be
> inherited from a page on the GNU site that I suspect was really intended
> for programmers.
>
> Given all of the above, I suggest that the 0, 1, 2, 3 are removed. As MJR
> says, a link to the FSF page (which I'm not trying to change, if you like
> weird numbering) is probably a good idea, too.
>
>
> Andrew.

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Regards,
Mark Preston