Fedora: Freedom is a Feature

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Oct 7 11:36:10 UTC 2007


On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:24:06AM -0400, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> liberty (or so is my [limited] understanding of the English language), I 
> do believe that the Freedom in Fedora and Free and Open Source software 
> is actually "liberty" (non-ambiguous with gratis or free of [monetary] 
> cost). In Spanish there is no way to confuse "libre" with "free" (of 

In English, "freedom" alwys applies to the liberty-related senses of the
word, not to cost-free.


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