Free Beer

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Kalle Happonen wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
> > On 24 Jul 2008, at 06:22, Kalle Happonen wrote:
> >   
> >> John Mark Walker wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Yorick Moko  
> >>> <yorickmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> by "gratis" he means "without cost"
> >>>>         
> >>> Oops... :)  Yes, I mean "free as in beer."
> >>>       
> >> Not to be a nitpick, but I think the official quote is "free as in  
> >> free
> >> beer" which makes much more sense :).
> >>     
> >
> > I have never seen the phrase used this way, only "free as in  
> > beer" (vs "free as in speech").
> >   
> Yes, I have always also heard it like that. But then I saw a question to 
> Stallman, "that doesn't make sense, there's no real free beer"? And he 
> answered that no, but people are misquoting. It was originally "free as 
> in free speech, not as in free beer" or something pretty close... If 
> there are some real gpl stallman enthusiast there, feel free to flame me 
> for mistelling/quoting/having proprietary nvidia drivers on the laptop..
> 

There used to be a band that played around Los Angeles 20 years ago, whose name was "Sex and Free Beer".

Looked great on the marquis of a club: "Thursday night: Sex and Free Beer".

The owners of the clubs weren't so thrilled, but the band packed the place, so I guess they got away with it.

-ken