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Sun, 24 December 2006 20:03   |
DJ
 Messages: 1124 Registered: July 2005
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p runs
> noticeably slower with it
> (email takes forever to open, etc).
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> Thanks,
> Dedric
>It's common shorthand in free software communities, and it stems from the
fact that English has one word that means both 'costs no money' and 'lets
people do what they want.' So, software that is 'free as in beer' is software
that you don't have to pay for but that is closed to you. Software that is
'free as in speech' is licensed under one of the other free software license,
so you have a right to view and change the source code if you wish.
German, for example, has two words for this. Kostenlos means 'no cost' while
frei means free with many of the 'freedom' related connotations. We have
to get by with one in English.
Needless to say, the Free Software Foundation believes that software freedom
is as important as speech freedom, but that's another, much longer, story.
TCB
John <no@no.com> wrote:
>Can you explain what this means in simple laymans terms? (Free as in
>beer, not as in speech) I can't find any easy explanations.
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>Thanks
>JohnWhen I was to fly tracks from Cubase to my Paris rig I have a latency of 75
samples...if I was to put vertex in all my paris tracks only and type in 75
would this put them in sync with my cubase tracks...if so consider it
purchased.
Don
"Dimitrios" <musurgio@
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