On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:21:37 GMT, Alex V Flinsch
wrote:

On or about Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:00:43 +0100, Volker Kerkhoff
wrote about the following in article
:


Should have specified... Free (as in free speech, not as in free lunch)
not necessarily means free of charge or other contractual terms, but "must

With a statement like that, I knew that you were a Linux user even before
looking at the message headers...

Well, no I am a user of whatever operating system my customer expects
me to, as long as I have the skills for it. This may involve Linux,
Solaris, various flavours of Windows, QNX, OpenVMS, Tru64, HP/UX. At
home, btw I use a linux box for a Firewall and Mail / News Gateway to
my DSL, and another one as a "playground" and File Server. In my radio
/ SWL corner I have a Windows-based PC since most of the software,
starting with ILGDB and ending with Digital Modes is simply not
available for Linux. I choose whatever tool does the job, and this may
involve all of the above.

Ah, yes, and although I have a goatee (which I keep short and well
trimmed) I feature a clean, short haircut, unlike some other gentlemen
in Linux advocacy.

Anyways, could this "free" be so misunderstood? When I hear the USA
being referred to as "The Land of the Free" I don't immediately think
"Cool, gotta go there for my next holidays, must be cheap", even
though I am not a native english speaker.