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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 543737478 References: <7vnsco$o7s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 941588493 207.214.211.201 (Tue, 02 Nov 1999 16:21:33 PST) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 16:21:33 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >The phrase "free software", coined by Richard Stallman, should >be used only in the sense of software meeting free software >requirements. Exposed or some other word does not capture the The phrase "free somenoun", in use long before Richard Stallman was born, usually means gratis, except in unusual cases, such as when "somenoun" is "people". Stallman, like Humpty Dumpty, can define anything any way he likes. If someone wants to lower the likelihood of being misunderstood, however, using their own private definition is not the way to do it. Numerous examples, including the start of this thread, demonstrate that "free software" is highly likely to be misunderstood, so anybody who is trying to avoid misunderstanding will not use that phrase, and anyone using that phrase is not trying to avoid misunderstanding. If "exposed" is likely to cause even more misunderstanding than "free", by all means use a different word. If there is no word in English that works, import or invent one (Stallmanized?) but don't use a word that will cause greater misunderstanding.