From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] long long warning
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:55:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020320105826.E209F19A6B@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
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well, of course that's supposed to be so [free in the sense of libero not gratuito],
and is intended to be so, but despite FSF's best
efforts to propagate that view, there still seems to be confusion about it.
there was recently a note on the free-software-business list
that included a reference to an interview with Sean Gordon
http://www.linuxandmain.com/essay/sgordon.html
and perhaps his experience isn't unique.
i suppose they could have called themselves The Liberal Software Foundation,
but then that wouldn't work: the Plan 9 licence is a liberal one, but doesn't
match the ideology demanded, which probably isn't. i'm think i'm for Reasonable
Software myself, in general.
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] long long warning
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:43:25 GMT
Message-ID: <87wuw8b1qb.fsf@becket.becket.net>
pb@research.bell-labs.com (Peter Bosch) writes:
> > Well, I don't support non-free systems anymore (where "free" has the
> > definition used by the FSF or the Debian Project).
>
> There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Ah, but there is such a thing as a libre lunch.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-20 10:55 forsyth [this message]
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2002-03-22 6:14 David Gordon Hogan
2002-03-21 3:31 dmr
2002-03-21 4:06 ` George Michaelson
2002-03-21 11:02 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-20 18:18 markp
2002-03-21 7:50 ` skipt
2002-03-20 14:49 Russ Cox
2002-03-20 7:40 nigel
2002-03-20 6:55 Geoff Collyer
2002-03-20 9:43 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-19 14:03 nigel
2002-03-19 13:56 Peter Bosch
2002-03-20 9:43 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-19 10:45 forsyth
2002-03-19 17:28 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-15 16:26 presotto
2002-03-15 14:07 presotto
2002-03-15 16:20 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-03-18 10:34 ` ozan s. yigit
2002-03-18 17:37 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-18 18:08 ` skipt
2002-03-19 9:49 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-19 17:11 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-19 9:49 ` ozan s yigit
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