From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Marion wrote:   
   > I never really understood the "free as in free beer" aphorism since what   
   > matters to me only is that it's legitimately free for me to use it.   
      
   The /original/ saying was 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' and   
   other words may be used related to 'freedom' such as libre vs gratis.   
      
   One way to elaborate is to say that if someone gives you a free beer,   
   you are only free to drink it, not change it or copy it or   
   'redistribute' it.   
      
   But the Richard Stallman idea of software was that it was 'free' to not   
   only use, but change/modify, redistribute. So, in that sense RS was   
   'anti-proprietary'.   
      
   This also necessitated the concept of 'copyleft' vs copyright.  The   
   copyleft business is NOT insignificant but holds significant obligations.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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