Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:18:41 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991122231524.0442bdd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> <4.2.0.58.19991122215243.043d9ef0@localhost>
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At 11:06 PM 11/22/1999 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >Right, these days "Open Source" has been twisted into a different >political agenda. The word "free" or any form of "redistribute" is >lacking from "Open Source". Yep. They intentionally confuse the issue by invoking multiple meanings of the word "free." This is part of Stallman's rhetoric. "Free beer?" "Free (in the anthropomorphic sense) code?" (As if it were possible for code to exercise fee will -- but, yes, Stallman employs this meaning to confuse the issue.) "Free speech?" (Another unrelated meaning, since the term actually refers to a constraint on the powers of government.) Politics and labels do cause things to get pretty strange very quickly. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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