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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
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Subject: Re: ?: Name for Copyrighted but FREE Software.
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Date: 3 Aug 90 18:24:44 GMT
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sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:

> Perhaps there IS such a name and I simply do not know it. At one time
> I thought "Freeware" was the right term, but then I saw that term used to
> describe what is more widely known as Shareware.

What you saw was a mis-application of the term. Freeware is, I believe,
the correct term for copyrighted free software.

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