On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 21:25 +0100, Simon Morris wrote: > Another reason why a term other than "free software" is sometimes > needed is that the word freeware is too easily confused with Free > Software and it has very negative connotations.
I agree; if you can't correct an incorrect use, it's sometimes bad. I'm not sure open source is much better on average; in fact, virtually every term other than FLOSS has problems, and FLOSS only doesn't because it's an acronym rather than a word. "Leebraware" also grates on these ears :/ I was thinking the other day how convenient it would have been if "shareware" was a neologism. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
