> Well, I'm going to take the FSF as the authority on what freedom means with respect to software, since it's their term. No, it's not "their" term. They didn'

> Well, I'm going to take the FSF as the authority on what freedom means with respect to software, since it's their term. No, it's not "their" term. They didn't invent and trademark term "Free". People were always using this word in context of software to mean that something is free of charge, and that is still the major usage of the term if you go asking users of the actual software. I don't care about FSF at all, but it bothers me when people assume that "free" could only possibly mean "Free (tm) (c) FSF". The term existed long before FSF with completely different meaning, which is still retained by >90% of the users. It's only the developers (and lawyers) that argue whether GPL, BSD, MIT or any other software is "free", free or not free. The users call it free if they can use it without paying for it, and that's all that matters to them. </rant>