Let's stop calling it free software
Source: Newsforge
Since I became editor in chief of Linux.com, I have gotten hundreds of emails requesting -- even demanding -- "free support" for "free Linux," not to mention endless complaints about how dare anyone put advertising on a "free software site" or charge money for a Linux distribution or how free software advocates often receive speaking fees for talking about free software. It's time to come up with a new name for software released under the GPL and similar licenses.
"Software Libre" is an alternative I have seen proposed many times, although it will probably never be acceptable to most Americans because it sounds too much like the "Cuba Libre!" slogan that has been used for decades by Cubans of one political persuasion or another to boost their cause, not to mention the fact that "Cuba Libre" is also the name of a popular cocktail.
