And Frank Heckenbach frank@g-n-u.de gave word to the following thoughts:
You might argue that it's not worth trying to make people change their "definitions", but then remember that most people associate "free software" with "freeware", i.e. usually with free beer, no source, no support software, and we'll also have to make them change this "definition" since we don't want to talk about "open source".
I agree whole-heartedly on that... Bad thing I see is that, right now, right here, obviously one of the main arguments to make people move over to use GNU/Linux that is used in press and media sometimes is the fact that it's pretty inexpensive to, for example, get a fully operational server working while relying on GNU/Linux software. That's where most of the computer-related press and even (which even more disappoints me) an annoyingly big part of the Linux (not GNU) followers I had the chance to talk to, lately, in the end yet get back to the fact of seeing GNU/Linux the "free as in free beer" way. This is horrifying to me, seems there's a lot of work left for us to even get quite a lot of the Linux folks to fully and whole-heartedly support not just open-source but *free* software.
Anyhow, second thing which I am quite often experiencing here is the fact to try to provide people not yet related to GNU/Linux and the GNU idea itself with information about where is the difference between "freeware" and "free software". I mean, how to explain this sort of "freedom" to someone who's not even aware of what "source code" actually is? I'd really need some argumentation help, in this point. :)
Regards, have a good nite everyone... Kris
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