Re: Open source - Free software

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   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.

This is simply false, free has a special meaning.  You probobly
confuse the word free with the word gratis.  Gratis is a much clearer
word, maybe you could use that instead of causing confusions like
these?