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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 19:01:51 JST SuperDicq

   Choose your life:
   
   You live in a prison, you can not leave the prison, but the prison does sometimes serve free beer.
   
   or:
   
   You live outside of the prison, you are free to live out any type of lifestyle you've ever wanted and you'll be free to travel to anywhere you want. (but you sometimes have to pay for the beer)
   
   This is what we mean when we say "free as in beer" vs "free as in freedom". Something being "free as in beer" is considered a bad thing in this context.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 19:48:54 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq Choose your life:
     You live in a prison, you can not leave the prison, but the prison does sometimes serve "free beer", but the beer is proprietary and also you also need to pay for it too.
     
     Or:
     
     You live outside of the prison, you are free to live out any type of lifestyle you've ever wanted and you'll be free to travel to anywhere you want and you're free to help yourself to an effectively unlimited drink supply or pay for such drinks.
     
     
     Free means freedom - "free beer" is arguably a contradiction, as nothing consumable like beer is ever actually gratis.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 20:11:49 JST 翠星石

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     • Parker Banks
     @parker The grass has computers running proprietary software in it now.
     
     I don't see how a handcuff-free calculator that obeys the user is meant to be a prison.
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     Parker Banks (parker@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 20:11:50 JST Parker Banks

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     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq
     The prison is computers, regardless of what software is on them. Outside the prison is literally just outside. Where there's unlimited grass for touching.