From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 10: 7: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp005pub.verizon.net (smtp005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9402237B419 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net ([199.171.52.20]) by smtp005pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id fBBI6bY16430 Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:06:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C164B13.20109@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:06:11 -0500 From: Simon Morton Reply-To: smorton@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,zh-CN,de-DE,zh-TW,zh, zh-õ` MIME-Version: 1.0 To: amos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free? References: <000801c18234$bf3f6e00$93312d0c@amos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG amos wrote: > I would really like to rid myself of Micro$ost, but can't find an > inexpensive way to do it. My question is, "How can you say FreeBSD is > free if you cannot download it? > > Well, you can ... but that's not really the point. The "free" in free software usually refers to your freedom to use it, not to your ability to obtain it or use it at no cost. If this is not the definition of "free" that you were looking for, you are certainly "free" to go write your own operating system which meets any definition of "free" that you like. Simon -- http://www.SimonMorton.com smorton at acm dot org \rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message