From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 01:40:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware Message-ID: References: <87wv4r1uy5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <+uc0vOZmzK9b@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107291409.6538ad64@posting.google.com> <4ajzJ$TMn9o+@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107301939.20b7df1e@posting.google.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 31 Jul 2001 04:40:07 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996568808 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:40:08 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:40:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10844 Date: 2001-07-31T04:40:07-05:00 List-Id: 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:... > >> 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.