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[Leandro Lucarella]

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 <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).

True.

Maybe it's because it's such an unpopular category that nobody cared
enough to make up a name and promote it =)

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Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/
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