[Foundation-l] Think different

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Fri May 11 19:04:15 UTC 2007


> No. The verb has more to do with freeing something from restriction,
> such as freeing someone from gaol.  Free speech may derive from that but
> it is a much narrower meaning.

Of course "free speech" has a narrower meaning than "free", but we
weren't talking about the definition of free speech, we were talking
about the definition of free. The free in "free speech" means exactly
the same as the free in "freeing someone from gaol".



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