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Re: Open source - Free software


From: Al Klein
Subject: Re: Open source - Free software
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:11:45 -0400

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:18:14 -0400, Barry Margolin
<barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>I think it is.  Note that I was talking about "free software", the term 
>coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, not 
>"freeware", which is just software you don't have to pay for.

"Free Software" is open source.  Free software, like free milk, is
something you aren't charged for.  It's a shame they chose such an
ambiguous word.
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