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Richard Kenner kenner at gnat.com
Thu May 5 11:17:36 CDT 2011


> I don't believe you really understand what Open Source means...it
> does not mean "FREE".

Actually, it DOES mean "free", especially since Asterisk is under the
GPL.  But, as RMS often says, "that's 'free' as in 'free speech', not
'free beer'".  That problem doesn't exist in French, where there are
two distinct words for "free" and they refer to it as "libre".

The point of Free (or Open Source) Software is that if you think that
some company (e.g., Digium) is charging too much to maintain it, you
have the freedom to maintain it yourself of even start your own
company and compete with them.



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