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Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL
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	as a swag (silly wild as guess) one might say:

	free speech refers to a constraint on the powers of
government.

	free code refers to a constraint on the powers of companies.

jmb


> 
> 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
> 
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