From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jan 9 17:37: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C52B37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:36:51 -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 14GAIN-00009n-00; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:43:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3A5BBE3A.C126AB27@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:43:23 -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: David Johnson Cc: "Kenneth P. Stox" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of References: <3A5A118F.2E06FCDD@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Johnson wrote: > > "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > > > > What do you think the average person would interpret "free software" as ? > > > Software that's not opressed, or software that has no cost ? Give me a > > > break. > > > > I live in a "free" country ( Please, let us not get into a political debate > > about this statement ). Does that mean it is without cost ? I don't think so, > > living in a "free" country has enormous cost, the least of which involves the > > IRS. > > Let's see, "free " has always meants "without cost. Always? Let :== "man". This dicussion has gone beyond ludicrous, and it's time to end it on -advocacy too. All of you just SHUT THE HELL UP! -- "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-advocacy" in the body of the message