[mythtv-users] OT: Google - big brother? or I going mad?

Marco Nelissen marco.nelissen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 22:11:59 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 01:53:56 pm Marco Nelissen wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > (...)
> >
> > > But it makes me very uneasy to take advantage of all these "free"
> > > services, anything "free" usually turns out to be worth
> > > the cost, or to actually cost   much more in the end.
> >
> > Kinda funny reading that on a mailinglist meant for discussing a free
> > software product :)
>
> That thought occurred to me as well.
>
> But we are talking about two different kinds of freedom. Myth would remain
> "free" even if it cost money to buy it (as long
> as it was still GPL).
>

Sure, but the fact of the matter is that in addition to being free in the
GPL sense, it is also "free as in beer"/gratis, and therefore, according to
what you said earlier, either is worthless, or has some hidden cost that we
should all be wary of.
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