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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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Stanley R. Allen wrote:
> 
> The phrase 'free software' is an English ideogram, like the
> other neologisms that compete with it ('open-source software',
> 'freeware', etc.).  All of them require decoding and always will.
> 

It also so that doing reverse engineering or hacking of Free Software
will never be illegal whatever the software industry does ie
the current fight to make reverse-engineering illegal or in other
words making the customer into a convict.