Eric S. Raymond on GPL and BSD licenses. & Microsoft coming to Linux

[Nick Sabalausky]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a at a.a)'s article
> (Side note:
>> since when is beer free?) is complete bullocks.)
>
> I've explained this to people several times before because others have 
> been confused by it, too.  Free as in
> beer means free as in "Dude, I'm going to the frat party to get smashed 
> because there's free beer."  Yes,
> there is a cost associated with brewing that beer.  Yes, the frat house 
> had to pay for the keg.  However,
> _you_ don't have to pay for it.  To you, the fact that the beer cost 
> _someone else_ money is an
> implementation detail.  All you know/care about is that the interface to 
> the beer keg does not require
> money, and thus you can get smashed for free.
>

Oh, I realize that. I was just being a smart-ass. ;)