Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > The meaning of freeware has been non-free software that is
>> > distributed as gratis since the '80s. Maybe you are to young to
>> > remeber this, but that is how it is. If you don't like it, go do
>> > some hacking instead, since you obviously have way to much free time
>> > on your hands.
>>
>> So you don't have a source to back up your claim and are just blowing
>> smoke. Thanks for clearing that up.
>
> Hey dak, his source is Mr. GNU President RMS.
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/words-to-avoid.html
>
> ------
"Freeware"
Please don't use the term "freeware" as a synonym for "free
software." The term "freeware" was used often in the 1980s for
programs released only as executables, with source code not
available. Today it has no particular agreed-on definition.
Again your mastery of English fails you. "was used often for" has a
different meaning from "was often used for". The difference is that
the term was frequently _applied_ to such software, not that it was
_restricted_ to such software.
And the last sentence clearly says that there does not exist a current
definition, in spite of what Alfred tries to bluster through.
Anyway, you are just playing with Alfred. Shame on you.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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