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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/05
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> and in some cases, paying for "shipping"-cost appetizer
> software called "free" does in fact turn out to be quite
> non-free (beer-sense) if it comes to commercial/production use.
> 
> So do people know that even in the case of  give away software
> stamped "free", free is no longer applicable then?
> 

Which is inherent in Stallman's definition of free:
don't deny anyone the same rights as you enjoyed yourself

Support contracts is one of RMS own way of getting food
while doing consulting on Free Software.

Personally i will happily fix some x bug in some sw Y or add
some feature x to sw Y but you can't expect me to handhold
you for free.