<p>I understand why the term libre is being used, I just think it shows abysmal lack of marketing intelligence to do so.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 1, 2010 7:39 PM, "Brian Lavender" <<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>You could be a little more considerate in your response.<br>
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Unfortunately, English is ambiguous when it comes to the meaning<br>
of "free". Spanish doesn't suffer from this ambiguity (gratis vs<br>
libre). Wikipedia has even devoted a page to this concept.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre</a><br>
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Considering that English uses a wide variety of adopted words and<br>
the evolution of natural languages, I think it is appropriate acronym. We<br>
use the root of libre in liberty and liberty, hence implying freedom,<br>
not necessary "free" as in cost.<br>
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Below are additional sites that promote FLOSS or the term libre.<br>
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<a href="http://schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Try_FLOSS_Now" target="_blank">http://schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Try_FLOSS_Now</a><br>
<a href="http://www.inapp.com/linux.php" target="_blank">http://www.inapp.com/linux.php</a><br>
<a href="http://libre.adacore.com/libre/" target="_blank">http://libre.adacore.com/libre/</a><br>
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brian<br>
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On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:19:02AM -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
</font></p><p><font color="#500050">> Libre isn't even an English word. FLOSS is a stupid acronym.
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> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:17 AM,...</font></p></blockquote></p>