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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:36294 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2037 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!rchen From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <1993Apr22.214916.6049@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <D87-MAL.93Apr19230114@byse.nada.kth.se> <1993Apr20.135723.752@rcvie.co.at> <C5wFnJ.KMt@cs.columbia.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 21:49:16 GMT Lines: 20 In article <C5wFnJ.KMt@cs.columbia.edu> Blair MacIntyre <bm@cs.columbia.edu> writes: >I don't know how you define free, but I haven't paid money for any GNU >software recently. > >They never said it was public-domain, they said it was free. As in, no >money. As in, no money for the source. All you have to do is not >charge people for any modifications you make and let them have the >original source. You are a fool. Whay are there so many Cliff Claven's on the net these days? The "Free" in "Free Software" has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH PRICE. You cal SELL gnu software for whatever you can get for it. "Free" means the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the source. The FSF people would laugh themselves off usenet if they read this thread. This is pathetic. -Rob