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On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Paul Baker wrote:
Or as some people say... free as in beer.
Let me be the first to correct myself. I should not have used "free as
in beer." It should read "free as in speech." Let me just quote the GNU
website directly...
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the
concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in
``free beer.''
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve the software.
If you want even further clarification, visit
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
--Paul Baker
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