X-Received: by 10.66.82.137 with SMTP id i9mr11249767pay.41.1357777387706; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:23:07 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.7.198 with SMTP id l6mr1473726iga.3.1357777387669; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:23:07 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!ld4no8224314pbb.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni95131pbb.0!nntp.google.com!ld4no8224307pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:23:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50ee0045$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> <26ule8d0lnvt0os562jnmu3e64d5hun20f@4ax.com> <50ecc75c$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50ee0045$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <87c24fd3-fffe-4696-a1ee-90c4ed13ee8e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: java software naming question From: Lew Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:23:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21274 Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > Mark wrote: >> Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: >>>Mark wrote: >>>> Actually you'd use LibreOffice now ;-) >=20 >>> Same price. >=20 >> Yes. And is the same price as all open source software. >=20 > You are free to ask a million for whatever open source > software as long as you comply with the specific open source license. As does IBM, for example, with its mainframe Linux. Red Hat, Tivo. Cisco and many others have sold Linux or other OSS for money= . The open-source software movement is very insistent that "free" means "Free= as in speech,=20 not as in beer." You see this quote from the beginning of any effort to read about open-sour= ce software. So there is no reason for anyone to believe that open-source software impli= es no cost. --=20 Lew