--- Krishna Pagadala krishnaact@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi All,
I am calling "free software" as "freedom software" these days. This is to emphasize that we are talking about freedoms, this way I am able to avoid the idiom ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.'', and I hope that the idiom will become unnecessary.
Does anybody have an opinion on this? Unless I hear good reasons for why it should be otherwise, I will be using "freedom software" when I try and explain free software movement.
Also in written communication, I am writing "Free(dom)" instead of "Free", should I just be using "Freedom". Please let me know.
RMS, if you are reading this. Do you have any opinion on this usage?
This is particularly important for me, since I am starting to give talks on Free Software Movement, (to friends mostly, in Bay Area, California, USA). The title of the next talk is "Freedom, Development and Justice in the context of Free(dom) Software Movement"
I am using Free(dom) term for nearly two years in all my talks in schools/colleges and organisations. I found it convenient and the message is driven easily.
Raman.P
________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com