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I truly appreciate your efforts towards creating a open source TN5250. I applaud your efforts and your generosity in giving up your time towards the better good. If there were more people like you the world would be a much better place. My hat is off to you. Jerry Draper Quoting James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Jerry wrote: > > > I've become jaded in this world. Nothing is really free. > > > > Quoting Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> tn5250j http://sourceforge.net/projects/tn5250j/ > >> > >> It's a Java based, Open Source, 5250 emulator. Runs on Windows, Macs, > >> Linux. Very powerful and ...FREE! > > While it may be true that nothing is really free (in terms of cost), > projects like tn5250j are truly free of charge to you, and you are given a > number of freedoms in connection with the software. > > While I don't work on tn5250j, I do work on other emulator projects (even > tn5250 on which tn5250j was originally designed around!). We give you > those freedoms without charge or compensation. It costs me time to work > on the software, but I give you that time freely. So to say, "it isn't > really free" is technically true (again, in the sense that it costs me > time) but saying so implies that the gift of freedoms I give you somehow > costs you. And that is somewhat offensive. > > James Rich > > It's not the software that's free; it's you. > - billyskank on Groklaw > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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