this was gonna be a long rant, and full on rational walkthrough explanation of why "freedomware" rather than "free software", and certainly not just "opensource", which is just to get bidniz peeps on board, n we aught to forever remember the importance of our freedom.
...instead i'll keep it relatively short.
free software, sounds like freeware, in that it's available at no cost. and while that may be true, that's not the main point. the main point is that you are free to do with it what you please, so long as you let others continue to have the same freedom to do what they want with it.
freedomware, a term, as far as i am aware, i've come up with myself, seems to do the job much better.
free, sounds like price.
freedom, sounds like.... freedom!
Richard Stallman, in many of his many eloquent talks, mentions how the english language has a quirk that prevents us from conveying freedoms the same way some other languages can, like with libre/liberty... liberty software would have even been better. but it cracks me up to hear Richard say the english language inhibits us from conveying freedom in a word. ....
... how about... um....
freedom!
anyways, just an idea that seems painfully obvious to me every time i hear foss, opensource, freesoftware and the like.
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