22nd December 2003, 3:10 PM
Free means you don't need to pay for it. I did need to pay to obtain it. Yes, I would have bought those games anyway, but that is irrelevent. It's the same thing as calling something like some feature in one of those games "free with purchase". Sorry, free with purchase is an oxymoron, and not just in a semantics way.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)