Reply to post: Re: OSS isn't Free Software

This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: OSS isn't Free Software

Don't charge for being a man? Doesn't really make sense, does it? And even slaves have a price…

In the age of serfdom English had different words for denoting different status, including "freeman". Other languages do, of course, have different words for "no charge" and "without obligation" such as gratuit and libre in French and kostenlos and frei in German. In English you have to use context to disambiguate.

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