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Old 09-27-2006, 09:10 PM
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
 
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Default Re: Open source - Free software

begin In <barmar-A9E115.13181427092006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, on
09/27/2006
at 01:18 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> said:

>I think it is. Note that I was talking about "free software", the
>term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation,
>not "freeware", which is just software you don't have to pay for.


No, "freeware" is a term of art that refers to a specific distribution
methodology, as is "shareware". Most software that you don't have to
pay for is *not* freeware.

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