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Re: Cody

From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: Cody
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:53:41 -0400 
On 20 April 2012 08:25, Bart Vandewoestyne
<address@hidden> wrote:
> feel free to mention 'Octave' and 'Open Source' or something like that
> in your Personal Profile message... that would be way cool! :-)

As part of GNU, Octave isn't really open source. It's free software:

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Also, the antonym of free software isn't commercial software. There's
lots of free commercial software (Red Hat is one of the examples most
people know about). The antonym of free software is proprietary
software.

- Jordi G. H.
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