On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:12:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > only in the broken english language. i think most others have more > distinction between freedom and cost.
Well, some languages are not for sure :-) We have to be careful when Japanese documents use bastardized English :-) Many Japanese "furii sofutoweaa" are just free-bear softwares. Many carry some restrictions beyond DFSG. This was very evident in 1980-1998. That is the reason why popular LHA is in non-free (Even M$ used to use this high performance "FREE" archiver.) Osamu PS: I am Japanese... -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
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