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"Freedom software" anyone?"Freedom software" anyone?Posted Jul 11, 2005 22:19 UTC (Mon) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778)In reply to: "Freedom software" anyone? by giraffedata Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)
For anyone who may have missed the subtleties of the "freedom fries" issue, it is my impression that it was a joke. Perhaps a mean-spirited one, but intended to make people laugh nonetheless, and was never used in a serious sentence. Sadly, it was taken more seriously than that. Several restaurants actually renamed fries on their menu, as did the restaurants and snack bars at the House of Representatives. At that time, and now, my own impression was that the people taking these actions were pretty serious about making a statement of protest, rather than a joke. See the wikipedia article. Like other folks, I wish "free" meant only one thing, and like others I have thought about calling it Freedom Software, but I too have the same reservations. My current hopeless hope would be that we could end up calling it Libre Software.
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