djansa@aphrodite.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
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>Let's keep Linux alive and well, and FREE!!

The word free has several meanings and not all of them are "no cost". 
One of them is (more or less) "not restricted".  The GNU Public License
(which is the copyright for Linux) uses this meaning.

This is a common flame bait in gnu.misc.discuss, and I think it should
be discussed there.

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