[oak perl] Free as In Beer

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Sun Feb 9 22:21:15 CST 2003


Arden:     
Wow! Thank you for this & the addendum!
      -- George

All, 
Any other  comments, 
translations or Perl programs?
      -- George

On Sunday 09 February 2003 7:47 pm, Arden Schaeffer wrote:
> Arden replies:
> Auf deutsch: Im Bier Freiheit.
> In interlingua: In cervesa le libertate.
> In Lingua latina: In cervesa libertas.
> En español (html: español): En cerveza la libertad.
> En français : En cervoise (ou en bière) la liberté. --but folks using
> non-Macintosh computers may be unable to read this, so it's better said
> in html: En français : En cervoise (ou en bière) la
> liberté.
>
> On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 19:19 US/Pacific, George Woolley wrote:
> > I really like the concept of Free Software.
> > The reality is even better.
> > I understand that the free in Free Software is
> > referring to Free as in Freedom
> > as contrasted with Free as in Beer
> > (when taken as referring to price).
> > But I wonder ...
> >
> > There is another sense of Free as in Beer
> > that I think is relevant to the Beer Sig.
> > The other sense is freeing of inhibitions, etc.
> > This sense is not unrelated to the saying
> > "in vino veritas".
> > Similarly, one might say "in beer freedom".
> >
> > /===============================\
> > Arden, can you translate that
> > into Latin and French for us?
> > Belden, can you translate that into
> > Chinese and Spanish?
> > Mike, would Tia be willing to translate that
> > into Russian?
> > What other languages do people know?
> > German?
> > Who will do Pig Latin?
> > Anyone know any other languages?
> > How about "Free as in Beer"?
> > \===============================/
> >
> > Comments?
> > Translations?
> > Perl Programs?
> >
> > Could we add either of the following
> > to the Beer Sig Page:
> >
> > "free as in beer"
> > "in beer freedom" or translation(s) thereof
> >
> > /===============================\
> > Anyone know the first reference
> > to the phrase "free as in beer"
> > in connection with software
> > you can get without paying $?
> > Anyone have a reference to a place
> > where Richard Stallman uses this exact phrase?
> > \===============================/





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