Don, el 12 de marzo a las 21:01 me escribiste: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Leandro Lucarella <[email protected]> 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).
True. Maybe it's because it's such an unpopular category that nobody cared enough to make up a name and promote it =) -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever tried? Ever failed? - Try again! Fail better!
