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Story: Software Freedom Day struggling in Europe

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Posted by: Roger Pratt (Saturday 10 September 2005, 12:41 AM)

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"Free" suggests the older term "freeware".

When _most_ people discover that Open Source is not free in the "freeware" sense, it loses all interest for them.

If anything is misleading, it is calling software and software support you must pay for "free", because software and software support are commodities or services; they are not human rights.

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