Alessio Sangalli <ale### [at] manowebcom> wrote:
> but any plan to make POV-ray free software? What is the problem?

  Will people PLEASE stop using the term "free software" to mean what
the FSF has distorted it to mean? Pretty please?

  "Free", in common parlance, means "you don't have to pay anything to
use it". Period. POV-Ray *is* free. You don't have to pay anything.

  Just because a random political movement called FSF has taken a word
used in common parlance and distorted its meaning until it has basically
nothing to do with the original meaning doesn't make it correct.

  (The same could be said about "open source". "Open" in common parlance,
in this context, means "you can look at it, you can access it, you can
get it, you can modify it". In contrast, "closed" means that you don't
have any kind of access to the source code. The OSS has gone and restriced
the use of "open source" to a much more limited set of cases.)

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                                                          - Warp

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