"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The meaning of freeware has been non-free software that is > > distributed as gratis since the '80s. Maybe you are to young to > > remeber this, but that is how it is. If you don't like it, go do > > some hacking instead, since you obviously have way to much free > > time on your hands. > > So you don't have a source to back up your claim and are just > blowing smoke. Thanks for clearing that up. > > Just because it is not in a dictionary does not mean that the word > does not have a proper definition.
I did not say "dictionary". Just any old reference will serve. If the word has a proper definition, you should be able to give a _single_ reference from anywhere else but your own imagination. > There are several words which are not in the dictionary which are > commonly used, and as it happens computer jargon like terms like > `freeware' are not defined in dictionaries, Oh, but there are jargon files, and a web search will easily dig up hundreds of definitions. > they are defined by the community, and as it happens the definition > of freeware has always been `no charge non-free software'. Then you should be able to find a single other person of "the community" that backs your definition. You alone don't constitute a community. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
