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[uk.misc] Re: Geek: Windows Cash Machines.

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Subject: Re: Geek: Windows Cash Machines.
From: jane...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Janet McKnight)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Organization: Sinister Greenend Hangers-On

And lo, on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:18:36 +0000, Mary Pegg
<nos...@widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> did say:

> (And, despite the large geek contingent here, it's worth pointing
> out that "free" in this context does not mean "without cost".)

People generally seem to want software to be free as in speech and/or free
as in beer. Unfortunately rather too much of it is free as in jazz.

--
coy and bitchy, wild and fine

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