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From: | Da Zheng |
Subject: | Re: Hurd Mission Statement |
Date: | Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:34:07 +0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) |
Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
And adding these four letters suffices to tell them the essence without relying on previous knowledge:I don't agree. People not familiar with GNU philosophy will either misread it, or ignore it alltogether.Do you mean the free/gratis/libre part? I tend to forget about that... free has only one meaning in my mind ;) But you're right. That isn't true for most people, and those would be confused. And those who understand "free "also understand "GNU"... I just had that problem again today: me: "Is it free?" other: "It's gratis for open source projects, so it's free."me: "That's isn't free." :-)
I don't get it. Why do you think the open source project isn't free? Zheng Da
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