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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> posted 44958E4A.6010000@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:32:58 -0400: |
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> May I ask, because I'm very confused, wtf is freedomware? |
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> I can only assume you mean oss/free java? |
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As distinct from "freeware", and also known as Free or Libre Software, |
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libre being translated free as in freedom (where freeware in common usage |
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means free as in beer, or sometimes free as in deliberately public domain, |
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neither one of which is appropriate here), thus libre software == |
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libreware == freedomware (and as opposed to slaveryware aka |
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another-is-your-master-ware, xref the sig). |
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Some here don't care. That's fine -- for them. It's a bit bigger |
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than that for me, but they don't ask me to run what is to me slaveryware, |
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and I won't ask them to give up what is to them "convenienceware". |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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