Comments on: Embrace Microsoft, or Join With Us (In our Embrace with Microsoft) http://techrights.org/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Chabot http://techrights.org/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Steven Chabot Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:16:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/#comment-158 <blockquote>Commercial Software Libre, which is a reasonable expression to use</blockquote>You must not be in marketing, considering the poor enough as it is language skills of North Americans.

Commercial Software Libre, which is a reasonable expression to use

You must not be in marketing, considering the poor enough as it is language skills of North Americans.

]]> By: Mercury Merlin http://techrights.org/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Mercury Merlin Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:08:06 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/#comment-150 Software Libre is the term I generally use, Free Software is too ambiguous in English, especially in spoken English. It's no good encouraging people think that Free software is _cheap_, which is not what's meant at all, not when what we need to express is the *value* in Freedom and Free Software, and want to be able to talk sensibly about, for example, Commercial Software Libre, which is a reasonable expression to use, where by contrast "Commercial Free Software" just sounds nuts to try and describe to anyone verbally. -- Mercury Merlin Software Libre is the term I generally use, Free Software is too ambiguous in English, especially in spoken English.

It’s no good encouraging people think that Free software is _cheap_, which is not what’s meant at all, not when what we need to express is the *value* in Freedom and Free Software, and want to be able to talk sensibly about, for example, Commercial Software Libre, which is a reasonable expression to use, where by contrast “Commercial Free Software” just sounds nuts to try and describe to anyone verbally.

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Mercury Merlin

]]> By: Draconishinobi http://techrights.org/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Draconishinobi Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:32:31 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/#comment-122 "Novell is now Microsoft’s Linux Division" That about sums it up. “Novell is now Microsoft’s Linux Division”

That about sums it up.

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