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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
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   On 11/02/2020 21.13, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 11/02/2020 17.49, F Russell wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:35:43 +0000, Arlen Holder wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   >   
   >>> the distinction doesn't matter all that much to the user.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> To a lot of users it may not matter.  All they want is some "free   
   >> beer."   
   >>   
   >> But for a lot of others it does matter.  They recognize and strongly   
   >> appreciate the idea of GNU and FOSS.  Hopefully they will contribute   
   >> in some way even if only though a donation to the FSF.   
   >   
   > For example, I use certain freeware software to watch tv programming   
   > from my ISP. The person that did this software has disappeared, thus   
   > that good software is dead in the water and nobody can continue the   
   > work; the software has faults, needs corrections, nobody can do them. He   
   > did not publish the sources, he did not even publish the investigation   
   > that allowed him to create the software. He wanted them secret.   
   >   
   > That would not happen in "Free" software, as we would have the source   
   > and /maybe/ someone would want to continue the work.   
   >   
   > That's a practical distinction between Free and Freeware.   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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