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   Mike Easter to Marion   
   Re: If it's freeware, you are the produc   
   01 Sep 25 08:28:24   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Marion wrote:   
   > What examples of freeware do you feel meet or do not meet these aphorisms?   
      
   There is too much free/open ware to do this.   
      
   In my world, virtually all of the ware is open source. While I don't   
   have the skills to examine ANY of that source, the transparency makes it   
   available to the masses who do have the skills.   
      
   But much of what you are dealing w/ here is free *services*, which is a   
   significantly different thing than free software, particularly different   
   than free software which is also open source.   
      
   Also, the open source world is considerably more complex because of the   
   licensing structure which applies to it.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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