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Havok Releases Free Version For PC Developers
An anonymous reader writes "Havok has released the free version of its widely-used physics and animation engine (but without source code), including tools that integrate with Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya. Developers may use Havok for free for non-commercial games, middleware, and academic projects. Here are the SDK and tools."
I'll agree that this is Slashdot, but 'free' had a meaning well before 'free software'. Since the blurb doesn't say 'free software', when Bromskloss said that this was "not free", Bromskloss was incorrect. It is free as in beer.
The term has been hijacked. Now if you want to argue that "free" should never be used in headlines without qualification, that is another story. But we could also argue that all FOSS stories should be tagged as such, and not just left as free, and let 'free' (without qualification of "free software" or "Free") mean free as in Beer, like it used to be.
My other sig is just as lame