<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">It seems to be free (as in bear) but not Open Source. Discussions as to wether software is 'free' need to define wether they means the geek version of free or the common usage.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ben</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> sparkes <sparkes@westmids.biz> 09/23/04 07:58pm >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Andy Jarvis wrote:</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>I beg to differ. Skype is absolutely free. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/">http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">definiately puts Skype as a non-free app. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>If you paid for it, you have</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>been conned.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ah, you have misunderstood the use of the word free here. The previous </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">poster meant free as in freedom. the following links might help you see </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">the subtule difference that can lead to flamewars ;-)</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/</a> for the reasons behind freesoftware and </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php</a> for the slightly easier to </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">understand concept of open source software.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">sparkes</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> _ __</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> ______ __(_)____/ /_ </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> / ___/ | /| / / / ___/ __ \</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> (__ )| |/ |/ / (__ ) / / /</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> /____/ |__/|__/_/____/_/ /_/</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">t:07005 968 999 f:07005 968 888</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="http://www.swishdesign.com">www.swishdesign.com</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. 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