Re: [tlug] Expensive Microsoft

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 8/2/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Your usage of the word "free" is valid according to some definitions.
> However ...
>
> Curt's usage of "free" is entirely consistent with modern economic
> terminology.  And it is the appropriate usage for this context.

Then "modern economic terminology" is sophistic and divorced from
reality.  When you pay money for something that you don't want, it's
not free.  You can make anything be anything with sophistry, but
reality is reality.  It can be cheated for a while, but then it will
bite you in the end, for reality can not be denied over an extended
period of time.  I hope you're not of the
short-term-is-everything-the-future-be-dam*ed line of thinking.  In
that case you're doing your students and society a disservice.

Lyle