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Libero vs gratuito

Libero vs gratuito

Posted Feb 4, 2006 1:16 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later

I'm really curious about the one 9-year-old who commented on the fact that the software is libero. Since every other child mentioned that it was gratuito, and I doubt that a child that age would be interested in societal aspects of software distribution, I suspect he was referring to the fact that you don't have to pay for it.

I know nothing of Italian, but if the two concepts get mixed up even in a language that goes to the trouble of having separate words for them, maybe free beer and free speech aren't as different as Stallman says they are.


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