On Friday 02 Jan 2009 10:40:28 am Praveen A wrote:
> > commercial (sell / trade) software subject to the terms of the gpl,
> > just in case they were actually that dumb and could not read legal
> > docs or the dictionary.
>
> Some terms are used anyway even though it is confusing or they know it
> is not correct or we campaign not to use it, because that is so
> common. intellectual property is one such example. commercial is
> another. Why there is a controversy about Linux and GNU/Linux? 

because there is a dispute about the meaning of the terms. There is no dispute 
about the meaning of the terms 'commercial' and 'proprietary'.

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Kenneth Gonsalves
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