Thanks to everyone for clarifying "free".
I'd like to make a suggestion, to do by example. I'm an applied sociologist.
Many don't know what that is, even some sociologists, so I help define it by
example.
My signature says "applied sociologist", so I am helping to define the
term by saying I'm one of them.
Similarly, for free or open or flo, define by example. If you have
some software or something on the web, have a short statement on the product
saying "This is free and open, that is, free to use, modify, share." If it's
also gratis, then add to the statement, "This is also no charge for the use of
this (whatever it is)." If enough people do that, users will get the idea.
So, I have a small blurb here.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html
Gene
Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
The Global Social Change Research Project
http://gsociology.icaap.org
Free Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
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Applied Sociologist
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________________________________
From: Aaron Wolf <wolft...@gmail.com>
To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] A Free, Libre and Open Glossary
To many of us, FLO means Free a la FSF (free-as-in-freedom), Libre
(unambigious), Open a la OKFN. Thus, gratis (free of charge) is not addressed
at all. Works may or may not be gratis.
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