[Consortium] fao Paul White: Letter for publication

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jun 21 05:41:45 EDT 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:07:59AM +0200, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> >From the first half of the article one could think that a misunderstanding took
> place. The author uses the term "free software updates", but he obviously was
> not referring to updates of "free software" but to free "software updates".
> 
> But then he writes this: "In fact, there are still those totally illogical
> people who think that all software should be free, no matter how much effort has
> been put into creating it - but that's an argument for another day! I'm sure
> those people wouldn't want to leave their front doors open with a 'Help Yourself
> To All My Stuff' sign outside, yet that seems to be exactly what they expect
> from software companies."

Thats true, its the classic Free v's $0 confusion.

- Steve



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