[A2k] Re: A2k digest, Vol 1 #375 - 12 msgs

[Seth Johnson]

Taran Rampersad wrote:
>
> Seth Johnson wrote:
> > Taran Rampersad wrote:
> >
> >> Well, Seth, where we differ is that you seem to be fixated on the name=
,
> >> and you've been very good about saying that 'Free Software' doesn't
> >> confuse some people as well.
> >
> > Never said any such thing.
> Check through your sent mail. It's there, where you said that there was
> only one way to interpret the phrase 'Free Software'.


Huh?  I never said "free software" doesn't confuse some people.

You're referring to the following:

> > At the end of the day, we use 'free' for Free
> > Software even though the word has been and continues to be abused by
> > marketers ('free of what? Lice?'). but we're willing to toss a phrase o=
n
> > the bonfire because it's ambiguous. Meanwhile, 'Open Source' has become
> > about as ambiguous.

> "Free software" has only had one ambiguity, under the English
> vernacular, for the unacquainted.  "Open Source" started out
> ambiguous in innumerable ways, and is not necessarily any more
> ambiguous now than it was from the beginning.


Seth


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