"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > > >I think it is. Note that I was talking about "free software", the > >term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, > >not "freeware", which is just software you don't have to pay for. > > "Free Software" is open source. Free software, like free milk, is > something you aren't charged for. It's a shame they chose such an > ambiguous word. > > "Free Software" is not "Open Source", since Open Source also means > non-free software.
Do you mean just your retarded inability to parse and grok NOSA? Doctors aside for a moment, did you contact NASA for assistance? Any other examples, GNUtian ams? > Free software is also not http://opensource.org/advocacy/free-notfree.php ------- The Real-World Evidence In mid-2004, the President of OSI did a statistical Web-content analysis on the usage frequencies of the phrases "open source" and "free software. You can read that analysis here. A summary of the conclusions: * Among software developers and in the technology trade press, use of the term "open source" dominates use of the term "free software" by 95%-5% or more. * On the general Web, the ratio is 80%-20% or more. * The gratis/libre ambiguity in the term "free software" produces about an 80% false-positive rate in Web searches. * Use of the term "free software" is in long-term decline, and older or obsolete pages form a larger part of its share than for "open source". ------- regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
