Re: Open source - Free software

[Richard Tobin]

In article <85ac4kkr0c.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

>>>No, freeware simply means a non-free program that can be distributed
>>>at no cost.

>> Where did you get that definition?  I don't think most people's use
>> of the term excludes free programs.

>When there is a charge on them, it usually does.  Few people will call
>Redhat Enterprise Linux "freeware" since you will be hard to put to
>get it outside of an expensive subscription arrangement, in spite of
>it being free software.

So some free software is - in that view - not freeware.  But I was denying
Alfred's assertion that freeware is necessarily non-free.

-- Richard