Warp  wrote in message <4878c2d7@news.povray.org>:
>   The word "free" doesn't change its meaning if you attach the word
> "software" to it

Yes it does: since there was no common use of this particular pair of words
before the FSF, it becomes a trademark.

>   What the FSF has done is that they have completely redefined the meaning
> of the word

So do most commercial companies and all politic parties in the world.

>   Their comparison to "free speech" is absurd and ridiculous

Fortunately, there is no such comparison. This has been explained to you
twice in the last few weeks.

>   I was talking in the *context* of software. When you say "open source",
> the "source" part is referring to the source code of the program, and
> naturally "open" means "for everyone to see".

No. Before the Open Source Initiative, it meant nothing. "For everyone to
see" was spelt "available", not "open".

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