On Friday 27 December 2002 05:41, rob wrote:
> What does this mean

free (as in beer) means no costs at all. 

> and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any
> discussion of Linux?....."free (as in beer)"?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob

This I believe is caused by a widely spreeded word of GNUs RMS (Richard M. 
Stallman) that GPL'ed SOftware is not to be free in means of "no costs" , but 
it means it is free for having the source (Like others have allready 
described a lot better. ;) )


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