On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:35:41 +0100 (BST) Hany Hamed wrote: > > > Free means free > Stop talking like MS men, or leave Linux > and join them for money if you want it > OOOOOFFFFFFF is this a reply to my comment?? I never saw this coming, so now I'm talking like MS men great and I suppose Richard Stallman is part of the conspiracy too isn't he?? I offer you some quotes from the Free Software Foundation's website ``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.'' http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible -- just enough to cover the cost. Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/selling.html If you want to say that a program is free software, please don't say that it is available ``for free.'' That term specifically means ``for zero price.'' Free software is a matter of freedom, not price. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html Also, if you use other languages than English, please try to avoid borrowing English words such as ``free software'' or ``freeware.'' Try to use the often less ambiguous wording that your language offers, e.g. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html and check http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/fs-translations.html for a list of translation for the term Free Software. I hope you feel satisfied with your heroic efforts at embaressing me and showing me for the sleeper I really am now I have to report back to my master Bill Gates and tell him that we need a new approach for the guys in Arabeyes because they are so darn smart. LART LART LART LART. Alaa -- Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]
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