From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Feb 27 15:24:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3080637B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9236E43FCB for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0207.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.207] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18oXNe-0004D9-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:23:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3E5E9DBE.12AA2EF6@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:22:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willie Viljoen Cc: Johnson David , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly apologizes for calling BSD "Free Software" References: <200302261224.54884.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3E5E70F8.85AE964@mindspring.com> <200302271306.26357.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200302272338.28371.will@unfoldings.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a462aa4c0ad09b2da0f000d446e2e9cccca7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willie Viljoen wrote: > It's even simpler than that. GNU believe software should be free, as in, > nobody can controle the software's development or rights to the software, > and if anybody wants to modify the software, the modification must also be > free, hence the author of any modification also has no rights to his own > work. That's not "freedom", that's "liberation": synonyms FREE, RELEASE, LIBERATE, EMANCIPATE, MANUMIT FREE implies a usually permanent removal from whatever binds, confines, entangles, or oppresses . RELEASE suggests a setting loose from confinement, restraint, or a state of pressure or tension, often without implication of permanent liberation . LIBERATE stresses particularly the resulting state of liberty . EMANCIPATE implies the liberation of a person from subjection or domination . MANUMIT implies emancipation from slavery . You know, as in "I hacked into Microsoft's CVS server and liberated the source code". 8-) 8-). > If the origional automobile were licensed under the GPL, Volvo would not be > able to receive anything other than credit for their idea of adding seat > belts, wethere they wanted to charge for the use of the idea, or not. They would also be able to accept a minimal fee for installation, and they could charge out the wazoo for a warranty, which no one would buy, because it's cheaper to get a new car, and they could charge for "OnStar" (support). 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message