Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <NZFA5.744$j13.76682@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>,
Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
 
> Why Paul, how positively Humpty Dumptian of you!
> 
> c.f. the following from _Through the Looking Glass_ (which is an
> uncopyrighted public domain work):
 
So that text is not freeware then?   <g>
 
 
> Below are numerous independent definitions of freeware, all distinguishing
> it from public domain material, either expressly or by clear implication.
 
OK --- the next time I have enough spare time, I'll look up an equal
number of web sites which defines freeware as including PD stuff.  I'm
quite positive it's out there somewhere, and not just in the Jargon file..
 
> Note that I only stopped accruing examples out of fatigue, not from any
> dearth of them.
 
A sensible decision .... one can be out on the web forever....
 
> I have no problem with the redundancy "copyrighted freeware," since
> constructions like this are often used by people who feel uncomfortable that
> their meaning might be lost or misconstrued, and is just a stylistic matter
> (e.g. "basic fundamentals", "past history").  But it is ingenuous to
> continue to deny that freeware refers to copyrighted rather than PD material
 
That's not my claim -- note that I don't say freeware exclude copyrighted
free stuff!
 
> (not that folks don't misuse it from time to time).
> 
> Like Humpty, you can make any meaning master, but at the risk of creating
> confusion among readers not familiar with the Schlyter dialect (idiolect,
> Jabberwocky?;-))
 
...or the dialect on the Jargon file.  I'm not alone using that semantics
of the word "freeware".
 
 
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