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Current Newswire: Sifting Through Billions and Billions of Bytes Miro 2.0 - Watch TV Podcasts and Videos in HD Hands off the Gimp Course: Using LDAP Bazaar for Subversion users, part 1 - the basics Firefox 3.5 - A Really Impressive Release Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs Tiny Core Linux 2.1 Review 5 Top of the Line Twitter Desktop Clients for Linux SECURITY: How Microsoft benefits from Conficker Senior Windows Engineer (NC) Next Step Systems US-NC-Charlotte Post A Job | Post A Resume QubeQuorner: What is free software? Jan 3, 2000, 17 :09 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5284 reads) (Other stories by Luke Tymowski) [ Thanks to Luke Tymowski for this link. ] "There exists a lot of confusion about the ideals of Linux, open-source, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)." "They're a bunch of communists" is something I hear quite often. And it's not true." "Free software, as encouraged by the FSF originally, and now with lots of press coverage and attention by Linux and the open-source movement, has nothing to do with monetary value. Free software does not mean giving away software at no cost and forbidding the selling of software." Complete Story Related Stories: osOpinion: Free Software as Free Software (Dec 23, 1999) Proposed French Law Would Mandate Free Software Use By Government (Dec 23, 1999) Computer Weekly (UK): Racal to trial free Linux to avoid £1m MS upgrade (Dec 16, 1999) European working group on libre [free] software: Information Society Opportunities for Europe? (Dec 15, 1999) REVISED: Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software (Nov 28, 1999) BBC News: Free software taking on Microsoft (Nov 20, 1999) Salon: Who controls free software? (Nov 18, 1999) MicroTimes: Freeware Fills Compaq's Alpha WinNT Void (Nov 13, 1999) LinuxWorld: Richard Stallman on freedom and the GNU GPL (Nov 04, 1999) Fight For Software Freedom Far From Over -- Interview with Richard Stallman (Aug 19, 1999) LinuxWorld: An interview with Richard Stallman (Aug 15, 1999) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Misunderstandings    David Johnson Jan 3, 2000, 18:08:51     Just words: communist, free    Carl Marks Jan 3, 2000, 18:14:27     Re: Just words: communist, free    Jim Flynn Jan 4, 2000, 02:40:16     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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