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This is one of the reasons people in the Free Software community have been recently shifting away from wording like "free as in freedom", "Free and Open Source
by codelizard42 11y ago
This is one of the reasons people in the Free Software community have been recently shifting away from wording like "free as in freedom", "Free and Open Source Software"/FOSS in favor of the use of the word "libre", "Free and Libre Open Source Software"/FLOSS
- aschampion 11y agoIntroducing more arbitrary jargon isn't going to make the distinction any more clear to a layperson, but if you do choose a neologism "libre" is just plain awkward.
- unholythree 11y agoI disagree, I think it's better to have a term that requires explanation than a term people will misinterpret. There's an existing connotation of free as $0 that you have to combat, rather than a simple new word/term to define.
- delecti 11y agoI'm not sure calling it a "neologism" is accurate. It's a borrowed word that has a clearer meaning than anything in English. Such a thing is hardly unprecedented in English.
- superskierpat 11y agoThis may be because I'm from quebec, but this is perfectly fine for me, its a word that is much more precise, since if the word does not have a proper translation, its a better idea to use the external, but uniquevocal, word.