From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 13:46:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C6037B6B5 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800B36E2777 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:42:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14FNbc-0000A5-00; Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:44:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3A58E31F.19F8F194@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:43:59 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Jonas Luster , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jihad crap References: <200101070509.f0759uw74992@green.dyndns.org> <001801c0786c$e5d55b60$aa240018@cx443070b> <20010107001846.A42548@netwarriors.org> <000f01c078de$14478c40$aa240018@cx443070b> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > Claiming that software isn't "free" because it's not valuable is > redefining > > > the word "free" to mean something that has no cost, yet has value. > > > > > > free (fr) adj. Costing nothing; gratuitous: > > > > Yeah, and 'gay' means 'joyful'. > > You're saying the most common definition of "free" isn't no cost ? That would depend on whether you're talking to Libertarians or KMart Shoppers. Can we please take this off the hackers list? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message