On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0400, Sam Hiser wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:33:55PM +0300, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > > >wants to fork it.  All this "non-free" shit is riduculus, and is one
> > > >of the reasons Linux will never replace Windows.
> > > 
> > > The only reason why I want Linux to replace windows is because is FREE. 
> > > I really
> > > wouldn't give a crap about it if Linux (and it's software) was non-free.
> > 
> > This is a very important point. If Linux weren't FREE it wouldn't even 
> > be what it is. The "free" part is the most important piece.
> 
> You're distorting the point.  It's silly and irrelevant to separate
> them.  It's Free and free and is where it is because together those
> things are powerful.

Oh, actually I didn't mean to separate them. I was referring to the 
freedom to see and modify the code in both cases where I said FREE and 
"free". The main point being that the freedom to distribute and modify is 
*the* reason why Linux and other such software *will* dominate (and it 
already is). Free(dom) is what makes the free (price tag) possible--in 
that sense it is not silly to separate them. If OO.o were simply free of 
cost, it would be much less of an appealing project/product.

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> > ak
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> > > Alexandro Colorado
> > > Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
> > > http://es.openoffice.org/
> > > 
> > > >
> > > >-Chad Smith
> > > 
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