[olug] Best Way to upgrade computer

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Tue Nov 6 05:14:26 UTC 2007


On Monday 05 November 2007, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Tony Reinke wrote:
> > VMWare Server 1.0.4 is free...
>
> Luke was referring to "libre" free vs "gratis" free... VMware server is
> the latter but not the former.

I dropped the adjectives when I came to realization that not only did gratis 
have its own alternate word, but using "free" is in fact incorrect 
abbreviation for "free of charge" ;)

Even the current Merriam-Webster does not condense "free of charge" into its 
definitions for merely "free", thus demonstrating that it can still be 
considered abuse of language.



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