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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