Freeware Python editor

Paul Winkler slinkp23 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 31 23:33:55 EST 2001


On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:58:25 -0800, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
>
>"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
>news:3BE099F6.A9E0708F at alcyone.com...
>> Paul Winkler wrote:
>>
>> > But this was before my time. Can anyone who was hacking in the 70s/80s
>> > comment on the evolution of these terms? When did "freeware" come to
>> > mean "free beer, no source"?
(snip)
>From the Jargon file:
>
>freeware /n./
(snip)

Yeah, that was the first place I looked it up. I love the jargon file.
Unfortunately it doesn't answer my question.

--PW



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