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Originally Posted by Neutrino 123
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It's free.
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.''
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
The term ``free software'' has an ambiguity problem: an unintended meaning, ``Software you can get for zero price,'' fits the term just as well as the intended meaning, ``software which gives the user certain freedoms.''
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s...r-freedom.html
Besides, even if you really do want to refer to the costs, it's not as if Windows is maintenance-free. The main difference is that people already know Windows and/or are accustomed to its flaws and annoyances. With Linux, you lose lots of those, but you gain a few new ones that are unfamiliar (and therefore a bit scary) to many people.