Warp  wrote in message <4860e303@news.povray.org>:
>   I find that allusion completely flawed.

The point of "Free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'." is not to
define what software freedom is, but to avoid a namespace collision.

English uses the word "free" for two very different notions: not having to
pay, or being able to do whatever one wants. Other Germanic languages seem
to have the same flaw, whereas Romance languages do not: in Latin
free-as-in-free-speech is spelled "liber" (think "liberty") while
free-as-in-free-beer is spelled "gratuitus" (think "gratis").

The point is to insist that free software is not just very cheap software,
but also software that gives you more rights than just downloading the
binary and using it at home.

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