Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Leandro Lucarella <llu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Free Software is a very ambiguous term too (many people think of "free" as
in no charge).
Unfortunately English is a very crappy language ;)
It's a great ball of mud. Fascinating and structureless.
I think with the absurd preponderance of FLOSS proponents saying "free
as in freedom!" the term "free software" really cannot be interpreted
as anything *but* FLOSS anymore. Frankly I'm sick of hearing "free as
in freedom!" and "libre!" all the goddamn time, I know what is meant
:P
Yes. It's a lot more obvious in German. frei = liberty, kostenloss = no
cost.
Maybe they need to change the name to: "Frei Software" <g>.
The upshot of all this, though, is it seems there's no term for "source
is available" (without necessarily being able to be redistributed).
