Re: Free Software vs. Librous Software

Adam Ophir Shapira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to coin a term, that term being "librous software". It means
> the same thing as "free software" ("free" as in speech). The
> advantage of using the term "librous software" instead of "free
> software" is that now you won't have to explain over and over untill
> you're blue in the face the difference between "free as in speech"
> and "free as in beer".
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> It's about time we have a term that means the same thing, but which 
> is free (no-pun-intended) of this ambiguity.


We do have such a term already: Open Source. It is free of the ambiguity
that you stated and I believe that it was coined for the same reason
that you wanted to coin "librous" (incidentally, it should be liberous,
not librous; librous would mean bookish or booklike).

-Isaac Hummel