Dave Bing

He went on to be a successful businessman in the Detroit area after his retirement. Since the advent of the free software movement, these terms have entered frequent use for categorising computer programs according to the licenses and legal fetters that cover them, and both this expression and the term gratis are used to distinguish freeware (gratis software) from free software. At one time a current joke about him and his backcourt partner, Jimmy Walker, was that it was a shame they could only play the game with one ball at a time. It can be contrasted with the expressions free as in speech, free as in freedom, or free as in rights, which refer to something which is free of restrictions, as in the freedom of speech. As the point guard he functioned as the playmaker distributing the ball, but also did more shooting and scoring than most others who had this position. Free as in beer refers to things which are available at no monetary cost (like free beer at a party). His playing style was somewhat unusual for the time. In hacker slang, another common term for gratis is free as in beer.

After attending Syracuse University, Bing averaged 20.3 points and 6 assists per game in his 12 NBA seasons, played in seven NBA All-Star Games (winning the All-Star Game MVP Award in 1976), was named to the All-NBA First Team twice, and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Free software usually means the former. He went on to spend two years with the Washington Bullets and one with the Boston Celtics before retiring at the conclusion of the 1977-78 season. GNU programmers often talk about free speech (libre) and free as in beer, as the word free in English does not distinguish between these meanings. David Bing (born November 24, 1943 in Washington, DC) is a former All-Star basketball player in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. Spanish and French (but not Latin itself, where the spelling is līber) that denotes the state of being free, as in "having freedom". Libre is a word in various Romance languages, e.g.

Gratis is an adjective in Latin and various Romance and Germanic languages meaning free, in the sense that one does not have to pay for some good or service (free of charge). . Gratis is borrowed from Latin, and libre is borrowed from Spanish or French. This distinction is of utmost importance in dealing with information as property.

Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distinction not made by the word free in the English language.