"free" does not equal "gratis" - it's used more in the sense of "non-proprietary."
*noddle* OTOH, without the ability to control who has copies of it, or even to charge for its redistribution, it's not clear to me how the original inventor/discoverer can hope to make money out of this.
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Date: 2003-05-07 07:35 pm (UTC)*noddle* OTOH, without the ability to control who has copies of it, or even to charge for its redistribution, it's not clear to me how the original inventor/discoverer can hope to make money out of this.