26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
3:06 p.m.
Dave Fawthrop wrote:
| Not at all. It is an expression common amongst the "open source" | community world-wide. "Free as in beer" is just a flippant expression | to disambiguate free of charge from free of legal encumbrance. The | matched pair are:
Only in *some* parts of the US. What you are saying is that the rest of the world does not matter and can be ignored :-(
I can assure you that "free beer" is very well understood all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The word 'Freibier' is even in the "Duden" (the most authoritative German dictionary). -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org