On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:18:02 -0400, Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While it may be a shame, they've been using the phrase for about 20 >years now. It's become part of the industry lexicon. Similarly, we >have the jargon "freeware" that refers to software distributed at no >cost. So there shouldn't be much ambiguity when the context is >understood Since most people who use software aren't part of "the industry", and understand "free" to mean "without charge", the phrase merely technospeak - the majority of the world will continue to consider software attached to the word free as being software without charge. As does acf. >AFAIK, there's no other common term for what is called "free software", >so it's the only phrase we can conveniently use. Then maybe it's time we coined a term for it that's not obfuscatory. -- It's back - http://www.webdingers.com/filelist.html _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
