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Re: Open source - Free software


From: Al Klein
Subject: Re: Open source - Free software
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:13:43 -0400

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:27:34 -0400, Barry Margolin
<barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>Whether they should be able to is of purely academic interest.  The fact 
>is that they *did* do this, and this is what the phrase "free software" 
>now means in the industry.  You can dislike it all you want, but you 
>can't legitimately claim that it didn't happen, and ignoring it will 
>simply lead to confusion in discussions like this.

So will ignoring the fact that "free <any product in commerce>" means
without charge.
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