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Same in German. It's a quirk of English that free as in freedom and free as in no cost are the same word.

• mrybczyn 9y ago
  But then you get the great quip that 'freedom isn't free'...
  • maxxxxx 9y ago
    "Freiheit ist nicht umsonst" just doesn't have the same ring :-)
• arfar 9y ago
  In English we do have the word "liberty" for freedom.
• andrewflnr 9y ago
  Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too. Maybe it's more that one meaning for a word and one word for a meaning just aren't enough for us.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    > Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too But no commonly-used adjective form of that noun.
    • andrewflnr 9y ago
      True, "liberated software" doesn't have quite the right tone these days.
      • ptman 9y ago
        I've seen the acronym FLOSS used: Free, Libre and Open Source Software