On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Kalle Happonen wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2008, at 06:22, Kalle Happonen wrote: > > > >> John Mark Walker wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Yorick Moko > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> by "gratis" he means "without cost" > >>>> > >>> Oops... :) Yes, I mean "free as in beer." > >>> > >> Not to be a nitpick, but I think the official quote is "free as in > >> free > >> beer" which makes much more sense :). > >> > > > > I have never seen the phrase used this way, only "free as in > > beer" (vs "free as in speech"). > > > Yes, I have always also heard it like that. But then I saw a question to > Stallman, "that doesn't make sense, there's no real free beer"? And he > answered that no, but people are misquoting. It was originally "free as > in free speech, not as in free beer" or something pretty close... If > there are some real gpl stallman enthusiast there, feel free to flame me > for mistelling/quoting/having proprietary nvidia drivers on the laptop.. >
There used to be a band that played around Los Angeles 20 years ago, whose name was "Sex and Free Beer". Looked great on the marquis of a club: "Thursday night: Sex and Free Beer". The owners of the clubs weren't so thrilled, but the band packed the place, so I guess they got away with it. -ken _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community