[SGVLUG] Microsoft Free software

[John Kreznar]

In a posting purporting to be from Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
but lacking a digital signature, it is written:

> For those of you who cashed in on the $15 Windows 8 upgrade the Media
> Center upgrade is still free 'til the end of the month.

As much as we might wish that Richard Stallman and the Free Software
Foundation had found another word, the fact remains that "free", at
least on a Linux mailing list, ought to be as defined by FSF.  Does this
Microsoft software satisfy that definition?

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 ...who won't use software he's forbidden to read ("reverse engineer").

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