One of the biggest german IT news sites is "golem.de". They have an own
category called "OpenSource" and they post very frequently about "Linux"
(some times they really mean the kernel, but most of the time they don't).
They almost never mention free software and in the community, the idea of
free software is simply unknown. A few people know about opensource but no
one about free software.
You can't run their videos without proprietary flash player.
It's hard to get news about free software in german; a few years ago, a
collection of blogs called the ubuntuusers planet was a good source for
articles like "the foobar program became free software" or "how to do foobar
with free software" and so on, but nowadays, they never post about free
software, only about opensource or steam games or spotify....
so at least in the german speaking blogosphere, I experience the decline of
the usage of this word.
Don't know why.
Rms still travels through the world holding speeches about free software, I
think.
