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> "Software freedom" sounds like we fight for the freedom of software, not people

Academic freedom and religious freedom are accepted terms.

> Freed software" sounds like it was nonfree at some point, which is usually not true...

Under copyright law, it is true. Software defaults to being non-Free. Software is not Free Software unless someone has taken the deliberately step of making it so. I agree though that it's not ideal.

> Even though "libre" is not natural in English, it could get better with time, like with many other words.

I hope you're right, but that's an uphill battle, and so far it's a losing one. We're stuck with Free Software, and clarifying with footnotes. There are also FOSS and FLOSS, but I wouldn't use them outside Hacker News where I can assume the terms will be recognised.




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