Comments on: Press release http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/03/16/press-release/ Describing our migration to open source software and UK business issues in label printing. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:43:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/03/16/press-release/#comment-45 Adrian Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:46:13 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/03/16/press-release/#comment-45 Hi Limulus Thank you for this technical clarification which I accept. I think the intended meaning comes across fine, but as you suggest, it is misquoted. regs adrian Hi Limulus

Thank you for this technical clarification which I accept. I think the intended meaning comes across fine, but as you suggest, it is misquoted.

regs

adrian

]]> By: Limulus http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/03/16/press-release/#comment-42 Limulus Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:39:57 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/03/16/press-release/#comment-42 Where it says: --- “free, as in speech, not beer”. This means that whilst the majority of open source desktop software does not have to be purchased, license savings have to be offset against the significant training and migration investment, and higher costs of consultancy support.” --- That's not the intended meaning of the phrase; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html --- "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer". Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. --- Where it says:

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“free, as in speech, not beer”. This means that whilst the majority of open source desktop software does not have to be purchased, license savings have to be offset against the significant training and migration investment, and higher costs of consultancy support.”
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That’s not the intended meaning of the phrase; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

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“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
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