[Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract
Josh Branning
lovell.joshyyy at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 22:17:04 GMT 2016
On 07/06/16 17:12, fauno wrote:
> Luke Shumaker <lukeshu at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>
>> Nonsense, Free-with-a-capital-F is a capitonym for being in-line with
>> the Free Software movement, as opposed to other meanings of the word
>> free. It gets to be capitalized because its meaning is being related
>> to the specific proper-nown movement, rather than implied-by-context
>> specific meaning of the generic word "free".
>>
>> Put another way,
>>
>> - "free" = any of the many dictionary definitions
>> - "Free" = libre
>
> why don't we just use Libre then :P
I prefer using the word Libre, but some are against, due to historical
reasons (... the word "Free" being used in conjunction with Free
Software for many years already).
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