On 19-Jul-2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > | I don't call Linux "Free Software". I haven't called it that for > close to > | ten years! Because I think the term "Open Source" is a lot better. > `--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>--
Whether Linus chooses to refer to "free software" has no effect on whether it *is* free software. Its recipients all have the essential freedoms like any other free software, therefore it is free software. Linus can call a horse a hamster if he chooses, it doesn't change the nature of the thing. Nor does it mean others should stop calling a horse a horse. -- \ "[T]he question of whether machines can think [...] is about as | `\ relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." -- | _o__) Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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