Commercial, open-source, and ``free'' (GPL) software

[John Vokey]

All,
   Just a point of clarification, but open-source and free software  
are quite different concepts, as the people of FSF (the authors of  
the GPL and GNU) have taken great pains to point out (please see FSF  
web-site: <http://www.fsf.org/>), and, in any case, neither is  
necessarily ``free'' in the sense many on this list seem to assume.   
As the adage of the FSF says: ``Free software is a matter of liberty  
not price. You should think of "free" as in "free speech".''

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