Re: ADA Development.

[Michel DELARCHE <delarche@cybercable.fr>]

A couple of weeks ago, I've followed with some curiosity the long thread
about "free versus free", and I realise that the terminological debate
is not completely finished yet...

As I'm not a native speaker of your language, I also realise "from the
outside" how frustrating it is to cope with two different (and not
always neatly context-determined) meanings of the same "free" word.

I would suggest to reformulate things so that the economical meaning be
more clearly distinguished from the legal one, e.g. "cheapware" vs.
"libware", since:
1�) someone made it clear that "free" meant in fact "low cost" (since
the medium, mail or download connection cost still exists)
2�) FSF-compliant distribution is about the freedom/liberty of
modification and (re)distribution ?

I guess you could object that "cheap" is not ideal, because it may also
convey a notion of poor quality, but it has the advantage of being
monosyllabic, which is better for a prefix: what about "unexpensiveware"
? :-)

tmoran@bix.com a �crit :

> > It is 100% clear to anyone that the student meant ...
> Things that are 100% clear to me seem often to be taken in ways I
> consider bizarre by others, so clearly my "100% clear" detector
> is not reliable.