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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