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Pascal Obry wrote:

> It's not free it is Open Source.

That depends on the definition of "free". For the FSF, free always means 
free as in "freedom" or in "free speech", NOT as in "free beer" (free of 
charge).

For software to be free software, in the FSF sense, it MUST also be Open 
Source, while the opposite might not always be true.

See also: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

> This is for me far better than just
> free as in freeware for example where from a day to another the product
> can disappear because the company as decided so.

ACK. Seen to much good pieces of software disappear just because some 
company was un(able|willing) to continue its development.

> Of course nothing is there forever. But to me an Open Source piece of
> software has far more chance to live longer.

ACK (with s/Open Source/Free Software/).

Bye...

	Dirk
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