[GNUz] What did the FSF ever do for us?

[Philip Charles]

On Friday 04 May 2007 22:33, Rik Tindall wrote:
>
> a) "Libre" is redundant if you've just said "Free", so why the
> initiative to state it? - Because it conditions "Free", in the very
> same way that is already achieved by the "OSS" in FOSS, prior to
> replacing it entirely. i.e. A number of European+ programmers are
> pushing to remove the "gratis" option within Freedom 2, through "Libre"
> usage, though more want to keep it.

Surely free-libre is used to distinguish "free" from free-gratis.
I have known free-gratis as an English expression since the days computers 
used vacuum tubes.

FLOSS  (free-libre)(open sourse) software.

Phil.

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