[Freegis-list] free software vs. free services

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hugo,



On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:00:48PM +0200, Hugo Ahlenius wrote:
> There are quite a lot of announcements on free software on this list, but
> next to none on free services...

You realise that "free" means two completly different things here.
Free Software relates to freedom and has requirements that the
software can used umlimited or any purpose, modified and copied.

	http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.html

"Free Services" means service for which there is no charge
for the end-user. (Note that there is never gone be a service which
does not create some costs for at least one party.)
We might consider to call it "gratis service" or "demonstration sites"
on this list as to avoid the confusion.

	Bernhard

> What things are there out there? I would be curious if there are
> client/server implementations of for example GMT.

There was once a site using GMT IIRC, but I do not find the URL quickly.


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