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[Don]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at 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).