Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Jun 2005 08:54 UTC
The Mac platform was always considered a premium platform, hence much of its software is shareware or commercial. In the recent days more freeware applications have emerged, but the majority are small utilities and not full scale applications. Enter the world of GNU which can not only provide "free" applications as in beer, but most importantly, "Free", as in Freedom.
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We know the difference between 'Free' and 'free' just fine, thank you.
Reading your comments, it looks like you are intentionally trying to make things more confusing, not less so. If you know better, why do it?
The only answer I can think of is that you want to promote responses that are combative.
If this is not the case...what is your reasoning for using freeware instead of either open source (a common term even in news papers like USA Today and the WSJ) or Free Software (a term less common in popular media, though still accurate)?
As a writer myself, I would hope that you would take the choice of the words you use seriously so as to raise the level of discussion and not degrade it into an us-vs-them battle that wasn't there in the first place.