On Wednesday 06 December 2006 19:04, Alexander Terekhov stood up and
addressed the masses in /gnu.misc.discuss/ as follows...:
> Aragorn (registered Guh-NÜ-slash-Linux user #223157) wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:19, Alexander Terekhov stood up and
>> addressed the masses in /gnu.misc.discuss/ as follows...:
>>
>> > "So now they're going to try the hard work of cracking 'Freedom'. Free,
>> > well that means stuff you don't pay for"
>> >
>> > -- Eben Moglen ("Moglen: How we'll kill the Microsoft Novell deal")
>>
>> Freedom doesn't mean that it has to be free of charge, although generally
>> Free Software does indeed come free of charge.
>>
>> Equating "free" to "free of charge" is a colloquialism. It's not the
>> FSF's fault that people tend to take rumors and misinterpretations for
>> truths.
>
> The GPL covers only the software; people are free to charge for the
> physical media on which it comes and for assistance in making it work.
> Paper manuals, and the time of knowledgeable people who service and
> support an installation, thus are the most expensive part of using
> Linux.
... Says it all...
> Impeccable logic.
Glad you see it that way too...
> Right, Aragorn (registered Guh-NÜ-slash-Linux user #223157)?
That is correct, Alexander (unregistered Crimosoft Glassware NT 5 user).
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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