Re: [fsf-community-team] What's in a name............

[Simon Bridge]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:43 +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> Diego Trujillo schreef:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I have also had problems when explaining free software to people (even 
> > in spanish where free (as in freedom) is 'libre' and free (as in free 
> > beer) is 'gratis'). The most recent example is when I was invited to 
> > contribute to a free software project and one of my friends said to me 
> > "well you start producing free but one day you'll get paid for 
> > non-free software." Even after explaining the price-liberty diference 
> > he couldn't quite grasp it.
> >
> 
> 
> It is not always free/gratis ... It is the fact "OPEN" source code that 
> is important.

No - it is that the software license respects the users freedoms that is
important.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
... reading this article was one of the entry requirements to this list.

Note: it is possible to have open source software that is not free
software.