On 13-Jul-08 0:39, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   Will people PLEASE stop using the term "free software" to mean what
>> the FSF has distorted it to mean? Pretty please?
> 
> 
> Those are terms with a very well know meaning in the software scene.
> 
No, it is used in various subscenes differently. You are currently not 
in a environment that agrees with FSF on this one.* Perhaps you are in 
your normal job/study in a group that does, in which case you need a 
context switch when coming here. ;)

*) the reasons why some people may overreact a little here to your 
question are that 1) it has been asked over and over again yet the 
license file is very clear and 2) people have moved POV out the list of 
free software in some packages because it does not comply to some 
arbitrary definition, thereby suggesting that POV costs money to use.

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