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Abusing the word

Posted by scrubs on · 4 comments
Free Software Magazine; By Tony Mobily 		Mail this story
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I am becoming more and more convinced that the real thread to free software (and I am talking here about software released under a free license, not software that you can download and use for free) is contempt. Proprietary software is a competitor, but not a real threat. Proprietary software cannot really kill free software: no matter how many law suits you start, how many patents you file, how many pre-installed versions of Windows you have, common sense will always win. Contempt, however, the the real danger.

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Comments (4)

BernardSwiss ·
Abusing the word "free" in software: what's really free in the Google market and in Ubuntu's market?

The Quote Bug strikes again!
djohnston ·
Quoting:I use VLC a lot, every day. I would love to donate $3 to the developers, for the privilege of using it.


Hmmm. Really? How about going to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ? The Donate button is right there at the top of the page.

I would have posted this on the FSM page, except for one thing. I don't do Facebook. Never have. Never will.
ComputerBob ·
Quoting:I don't do Facebook. Never have. Never will.
+1

IMHO, Facebook's not free.
Fettoosh ·
Quoting:IMHO, Facebook's not free.


... and very dangerous.

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