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From: Daniel Mandic on 8 Mar 2010 20:05 Bear Bottoms wrote: > > Do you consider all the commercial software you've bought to be > > freeware, because you don't have to pay anything more to use it once > > you've bought it? > > > This is an utterly stupid argument. I have thought over it, some times, but I came to the same conclusion.... (cut off his wall-socket ;-)) -- Daniel Mandic
From: George Orwell on 9 Mar 2010 11:02 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com> wrote in > news:7vga7aFth5U1(a)mid.individual.net: > >>»Q« wrote: >>> In <news:hmuaok$tc6$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Craig >>> <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 03/06/2010 10:18 AM, Phil wrote: >> >>>>> Ive never YET found any freeware that needed a "liscenced Windows" >> >>>> Internet Explorer, e.g. >> >>> Since that's not freeware, Phil still hasn't yet found any. ;) >> >> Define Freeware. If someone uses a definition of Freeware that >> encompasses programs that fall off the back of a truck then any and all >> programs are Freeware. >> >> OTOH. . . >> >> *IF* by definition "Freeware is legally obtainable software that you >> may use at no cost, monetary or otherwise, for as long as you wish." >> >> *THEN* any program with a EULA that requires you to have a "licensed >> Windows OS" BY DEFINITION is not Freeware. >> >> and Phil is saying he's never found a unicorn. ;) >> >> Susan > > That is not the definition for this group Susan. The definition for this > group is: > > "Free software that was intended to be free." Well if that's the definiotion you're using then IE is most *definitely* not free. It's not free, nor did Micro$oft ever intend it to be so. Thank you for clearing that up. :) > Since there is non-monetary costs to all software... No, there's actually not. You can run 100% free software on a donated machine using the power at your local library, just for an example, and *real* freeware won't place you in a position of breaking its bullshit agreement about having to pay cash money for the privledge. Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system Per maggiori informazioni |For more info https://www.mixmaster.it
From: Anne Onime on 9 Mar 2010 11:06 Bear Bottoms wrote: >> No, those were my words, added after the quote. I forgot to indicate >> exactly where the quoted text began and ended. The part you quoted >> above is and was only my opinion, based on the continued availability >> of IE as a download. ;-) >> >> > I know...and you were wrong. I explained why. Your "explanation" only holds water in your fevered imagination. It's nothing but the petty quibbling of a small mind, desperately trying to prop up it's delusions of significance. Look around you Bottoms. You lost again. Miserably as usual. *snicker*
From: Bear Bottoms on 9 Mar 2010 12:32
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:02:49 +0100 (CET), George Orwell <nobody(a)mixmaster.it> said: > No, there's actually not. You can run 100% free software on a donated > machine using the power at your local library, just for an example, and No. You have to have a licence to run Windows. -- BearBottoms |