Free as in speech means that something has personal freedoms associated
with.
Linux is free as in beer and speech. That is, Linux doesn't cost any
money and you have full access to the source code and can change it how
you see fit. Commercial software costs money and has a license
agreement associated with that limits how you can make use of it.
Matt Liotta
R337 Consulting LLC
http://r337.com
On May 6, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 09:31 AM 5/6/2004 -0400, Matt Liotta wrote:
> > >
> >The beta version(s) of the product will be freely available as in
> beer,
> >but not speech. We do plan to sell a version of He3 in the future.
>
> What do the terms free as in beer and free as in speech mean? To me,
> free
> as in beer would be a scam - like all those posters in university that
> offered "FREE BEER!" and then when you read them, were about something
> completely different.
>
> T
>
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