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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?
Date: 18 Dec 2001 23:27:16 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50

Michael Campbell <address@hidden> writes:

> > > I use Pegasus ( http://www.pmail.com ) on MS Windows, mostly
> > because
> > > it's free
> > 
> > No it is not. It just doesn't cost any money to download the
> > compiled
> > program.
> 
> It seems that it is.
> 
> >From the "Ordering" page (http://www.pmail.com/manuals.htm)...

An unfounded claim that something is free does not make it so.

Although the author has offered to make the source code available to
"a suitably-constituted development team" to port Pegasus to a
GNU/Linux operating system, the "suitably-constituted development
team" would have to sign an NDA, and let the original author control
the distribution of binary versions of the program. This is not free
by any known definition of the term.


-- 
Jason Rumney





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