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FreedomFreedomPosted Mar 21, 2008 11:21 UTC (Fri) by anton (subscriber, #25547)In reply to: GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation) by janpla Parent article: GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation)
When you say "I'm free" or "It's free", one necessarily has to ask "From what?"Only in Newspeak. From the appendix of Nineteen Eighty-Four: To give a single example, the word free still existed in Newspeak, but could only be used in such statements as "The dog is free from lice" or "This field is free from weeds." It could not be used in its old sense of "politically free" or "intellectually free," since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless.
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