On 9/7/07, Bob Blick <bbblick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Back in 1998 when Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman
> had their fight, it was about "open source" rather
> than "freedom". Nine years later we end up with both
> having been watered down considerably.

I think the problem is that the word 'free' in English is overloaded
with two meanings: liberty and price.  It causes confusion when
talking about charging money for Free software.

There is nothing wrong with charging money for open source software,
ie software you get the source code for, rather than just a binary
blob.  However, for it to be Free software (in the GNU Public License
sense of the word), you need the freedom to be able to redistribute it
however you see fit.

Alex
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