Re: The Comparison Now in HTML

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 e.huelsmann@gmx.net wrote:

>
> Shlomi,
>
> Nice document! One thing: 'gratis' is most often translated to 'free' in
> english.
> (But a native speaker will have to help me here...)
>

Actually, "gratis" is a proper English word for costless (or free as in
free beer). Check:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=gratis

I have only used gratis for describing the costless BitKeeper license and
I'd rather keep it that way so people won't think it is free as in free
speech.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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        Falk Fish

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Received on Sun Sep 7 14:58:43 2003