[SLL] Meme Engineering

[Chuck Wolber]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:

> Free as in Beer, doesn't have meaning to me. Beer isn't free, you buy it 
> or sell it or make it. Maybe that is what is meant - you can buy it, 
> sell it, or make it. I don't think you can patent it, even if it is your 
> special batch, but you can give it to your friends and it goes good with 
> pizza. So the comparison of beer to free software is a bit vague to me.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the long standing "Free as in Beer" meme 
posited by Richard Stallman (founder of the FSF and father of the GPL)? 
Think of it as multi-word slang.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre#Libre

The specific quote on that page is:

	This is sometimes expressed in the phrase, "free as in free beer", as 
	distinct from "free as in free speech".

..Chuck..


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