Re: In praise of Ada Freeware

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <5ee5b646.0107301939.20b7df1e@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<tch0yFB+db$i@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> 
>> Obviously our vantage points differ.  I quote from a recent post in
>> the VMS newsgroup where the meaning of "The Freeware" is considered
>> to be known by all.
> 
> No, you're getting confused here "The Freeware" is referring to the
> particular set of software concerned, it is not a definition of
> Freeware.

"The Freeware" is just that person's informal way of referring to a
known set of discs.  Others might call them "the freeware disks
that come with VMS".  They call them that because they contain
freeware -- unsupported stuff which with very few exceptions
includes source.