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 _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list

