we have an isp in france called Free - so yeah, at least somewhere it's a trademark. though this is not the real reason they ban it. people are cheapo so they a

we have an isp in france called Free - so yeah, at least somewhere it's a trademark. though this is not the real reason they ban it. people are cheapo so they all want free stuff, so they tend to search for "<app> free", and google tries to reduce the squatting on this keyword. it always baffled me how people always feel this need to explicitly search for free stuff, without looking first if it is always free (esp. in the case of opensource software). I once had to cleanup of viruses the computer of a classmate that got all the viruses because he searched for "python free" and fell for a crappy, virus-loaded, fake version...