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- From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 01:54:34 -0800
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- In article <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >Your mission would be unexceptionable, and indeed laudable, were it
- >not ineluctably involved with an attempt at a reprehensible semantic
- >reform. As it stands, your true mission is to self-servingly gloss
- >the "Freedom is slavery" slogan of the Ministry of Truth.
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- The second ammendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right for the
- public to keep and bear arms (well, it *tries* to). This is a freedom to
- bear guns. This does not mean that the guns are free.
-
- Someone leaving some form of incarceration might be heard to proclaim, "I am
- free!" There was a long-time movement to "Free Nelson Mandella!" Does that
- mean that the subject of each of those statements is available without
- price? Or even without restriction? No. Saying, "I am free!" means that
- you are not captive, and that you are not prevented from some action.
- Similarly with the software produced and owned by the FSF: it is free, but
- not free. <<Liberte'>> au lieu de <<gratuit>>.
-
- I personally don't see what the problem is. "Free" *does* have more than
- one definition in English.
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