My thoughts exactly. To a lot of people (if I'd guess, I'd say a vast majority indeed) it just means 'free' as opposed to 'paying money for it'. Especially beca

My thoughts exactly. To a lot of people (if I'd guess, I'd say a vast majority indeed) it just means 'free' as opposed to 'paying money for it'. Especially because used in combination with 'software' of which most people know there is also a paid-monney-for-it version. So no they won't ask what it means. If you want to express something means 'free' as in 'freedom' (and other meanings the article gives to it) then a more effective way to communicate that might be coming up with a term better epxressing that than just 'free'. Thinking of it from that angle, maybe 'open' isn't even that bad.