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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c89c821f7d51e0b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 13:45:49 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:45:27 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:45:27 GMT Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.bnb-lp.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17137 Date: 2001-11-28T21:45:27+00:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org says... > >>whereas the FSF "free" is an abbreviation for "free of certain contractual >>restrictions". > Or perhaps it means "free" in the same sense as "The homeless are >free of worry over mortgages or rent." More in the sense of the old saying "Its a free country". (Well, 200+ years old here in the US anyway). Its not saying that we can help ourselves to anything in the country without paying. Its also not saying that the country itself is free for the taking by anyone who wants to own it. Its also not saying that the leaders of the country are free to impose whatever terms they want on us. It is saying the we (in this case, the "users") have a very large amount of freedom with this country, tempered mainly by prohibitions against depriving anyone else of that same freedom. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.