Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re:
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 22:07 |
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:56:41PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Douglas Koller, Latin & French scripsit:
>
> > Egads, am I beyond the pale? At least on the pre-vocal level, I read
> > it to myself as if it were the Charles Schultz character with a binky
> > [lainVks]. If I actually had to *say* it, I'd probably opt for
> > [linUks]. All of this would assume I had the vaguest idea as to what
> > I was talking about (well, it's something computery).
>
> It's an operating system, like Windows, except 1) it's free (Windows costs
> you about $200 of the price of any computer you buy),
<pedantic nitpick> It's also free in the sense that you have the *right*
to freely modify and redistribute it without paying exorbitant royalty
fees. (See (3) below.) "Free software" pedantics will also emphatically
emphasize that the word "free" in "free software" has this meaning, rather
than to the free-of-charge meaning.
</pedantic nitpick>
> and 2) you get a lot more with it, and 3) you can change it if you don't
> like it, or pay someone else to do so, or wait until free improvements
> are dropped on your head, and 4) ... but this is OT.
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