Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 03:14:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: brett@lariat.org Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <19991123111417.ADEA714BEC@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991122231524.0442bdd0@localhost> (message from Brett Glass on Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:18:41 -0700)
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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