Ed Jensen wrote: > Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>It's interesting that you bring this tired thought experiment up in the >>context of the original remark: "Its license is far more "free" than >>GPL is." If we were focusing on the "vox pop" interpretation of the >>word "free", that remark wouldn't make any sense at all: after all, >>what's more gratis than gratis (to use a less ambiguous word)? > > > My only intention was to point out that "Free Software" is a rather > misleading term. > > I still think of the term "Free Software" as false advertising.
I'm FREE to use the software, FREE to redistribute it, FREE to give it away, FREE to make derivative works, FREE to transfer the licence, *and* I got it FREE of cost as well, but that doesn't make it free. Not on Bizarro World at least. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
