Fringe Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:48 PM 3/4/2003  -0500, Jonathan Saunders wrote:
>>To be Free Software, I think it has to be able to built using
>>Free tools and run in a Free environment. (That's my
>>interpretation, at any rate.)
> 
Please do not try to redefine the term "Free Software" from the FSF meaning. 
You may mean well, but your redefinition has problems: FS could never
have started.

> And let's remember that for the vast majority (a really vast majority) of 
> users, Windows was essentially free, certainly a sunk cost (meaning 

And please let's remember that this is about freedom, not cost.  Cost
is largely irrelevant.

> rainbow.  There's always another hill in the way.  For me, open-source is 
> close enough if I like the language, and is what I release.  And by writing 

Is it because you don't understand free software that you only aspire
to "open-source"?

MJR


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