scripsit Derek Neighbors: > (Please note calling Free Software, Freeware is really bad. Freeware
> is a classification of software similar to Shareware in the 80/90's
> that did not come with any freedom.)
This is quite important. Use of the term `freeware' to refer to
free (libre) software is a ploy to emphasize the `gratis' nature of free
software. In addition, and probably more importantly, it associates
even something like gcc or apache with shareware, which to most
businesses is low-quality, unmaintained and unsupported software.
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Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
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