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Please don't pedal this nonsense. "Free software" existed well before Stallman. I learnt to program from magazines that had "free software" written out in BAS

Please don't pedal this nonsense. "Free software" existed well before Stallman. I learnt to program from magazines that had "free software" written out in BASIC. It was free (cost and freedom). After that we used to download free software from BBS's. Fractint etc. Free software existed before, it'll always exist. It's existence has nothing to do with Stallman. About as irritating as hearing 'Crockford invented JSON'.

jrockway 15y ago
That was "free software". This is Free Software.
icebraining 15y ago
Words and expressions often have more than one meaning. This is the case. See Gratis versus Libre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
rryan 15y ago
Was it actually free as in libre? Did the magazine include a license for the code samples? If there was no explicit license then it was absolutely not libre due to copyright.