Re: Open source - Free software

[Alexander Terekhov]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:13:43 -0400
> Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:27:34 -0400, Barry Margolin
> > <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >Whether they should be able to is of purely academic interest.  The
> > >fact is that they *did* do this, and this is what the phrase "free
> > >software" now means in the industry.  You can dislike it all you
> > >want, but you can't legitimately claim that it didn't happen, and
> > >ignoring it will simply lead to confusion in discussions like this.
> >
> > So will ignoring the fact that "free <any product in commerce>" means
> > without charge.
> 
> But unless you talk about a box in a shop, software isn't "any product
> in commerce".

Eeckels, Eeckels, so what are they selling for example here:

https://shopm.winzip.com/cgi-bin/wzc1.cgi

(note that $9.95 for CD is an extra option)?

regards,
alexander.