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

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:33 +0100, Florian Purucker wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Mike VandeVelde:
> > NATURAL SOFTWARE
> 
> I do not think this is a suitable replacement. As you said, in the natural
> state, there is only survival of the fittest and rule of force.
In NZ "natural" sometimes means "nude".

> As to Free Software/Freedom Software:
> I think Freedom Software is a term that can be used, but I still do not
> think it should replace the term Free Software.

When speaking of the movewent and ideals, it is often useful to say
"software freedom". "Liberty Software" is almost there. The trick will
be to come up with something that has not been thought of in the last 30
years this discussion has been cycling.

> the sentence "Free as is freedom, not free as in
> beer." is easy enough to say to someone who does not know anything about
> free software.

And has the advantage of surprising that person, so they'll remember it
longer.