Open source dmd on Reddit!

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:01:04 +0300, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> 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).

I always thought Open Source mean just that until I read this very thread.
Oh, well.. live and learn.

Perhaps, should've named it Free Source Software rather than Open Source.