Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:39:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hamilton@pobox.com (Jon Hamilton) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902241839.LAA03866@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990224013736.4C84946381@pobox.com> from "Jon Hamilton" at Feb 23, 99 07:37:36 pm
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> From the FSF perspective, _free_ refers to freedom, not to price. The correct word for this is "liberty", not "freedom". The use of "free" is because the antecedant to "liberty" that bears the same relationship as "free" does to "freedom" is "liberated". The phrase "liberated software" stikes too close to the truth of the matter in its connotations, even if its denotation is correct. As in "John Dillinger liberated the money from the bank", or "The libertines attacked once again, but the duly elected governemnt sent soldiers in to protect the lives of the peace loving citizenry". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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