Why we speak about Free Software

Jeroen Dekkers jeroen at dekkers.cx
Wed Apr 24 17:54:33 UTC 2002


On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On the brighter side, I got pulled up for this (saying OpenOffice
> instead of OpenOffice.org) in something I wrote recently by a "volunteer
> marketer" for OpenOffice.org - so, this is obviously a problem that they
> recognise, and there are people reading things and making sure that
> people make the correct distinction between StarOffice and
> OpenOffice.org. Perhaps we can prod them a little so that they also make
> the distinction between the types of licence as well as the name  -
> although, they may well do that already, I don't know.

They should just make StarOffice free and you wouldn't have those
problems.

Jeroen Dekkers
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