Strypey on Nostr: npub1yc4wj…y73v3 > I guess the ambiguity in the English "free" term was a RMS's ...
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> I guess the ambiguity in the English "free" term was a RMS's failure
More a failing of English as a language. There's no ambiguity in most other European languages ("libre" vs. "gratis" etc). But I often wonder if the Open Source pivot would have seemed necessary if he'd just gone with "Freedom Software", or even just called the organisation the Software Freedom Foundation. I'd still like to see the Free Software Directory rebranded as the Software Freedom Directory.
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> I guess the ambiguity in the English "free" term was a RMS's failure
More a failing of English as a language. There's no ambiguity in most other European languages ("libre" vs. "gratis" etc). But I often wonder if the Open Source pivot would have seemed necessary if he'd just gone with "Freedom Software", or even just called the organisation the Software Freedom Foundation. I'd still like to see the Free Software Directory rebranded as the Software Freedom Directory.
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