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802 points csmantle | 5 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.757s | source
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jurgenaut23 ◴[13 Jul 25 09:41 UTC] No.44548891[source]▶
I think it’s fascinating how languages shape our society. In this case, the ambiguity between free as in “at no cost” and free as in “freedom” is probably hurting the FOSS landscape. In French, there are two very distinct terms for this: “gratuit” vs “libre”. And it doesn’t sound as an oxymoron to pay for a “logiciel libre”.
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triska ◴[13 Jul 25 09:59 UTC] No.44548988[source]▶
On the other hand, how come that the desired connotation is not the immediately prevailing one in the land of the free which is not the land of no cost.
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awestroke ◴[13 Jul 25 10:05 UTC] No.44549020[source]▶
Nobody thinks of it as "land of the free" nowadays
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1. edoceo ◴[13 Jul 25 10:18 UTC] No.44549102[source]▶
I do. Bit of a rough patch at the moment tho.
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2. immibis ◴[13 Jul 25 10:30 UTC] No.44549171[source]▶
Consider re-evaluating your beliefs.

The more someone has to tell you that you're free, the less you actually are. C.f. North Korea.

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3. layer8 ◴[13 Jul 25 11:29 UTC] No.44549499[source]▶
It has become quite a stretch.
4. edoceo ◴[13 Jul 25 16:20 UTC] No.44551487[source]▶
I will not reconsider. I will work to make my belief reality.
5. bigstrat2003 ◴[13 Jul 25 23:32 UTC] No.44554777[source]▶
If that was true, the US wouldn't have been free for almost its entire existence. Our national anthem, the lyrics to which are over 200 years old, call the nation "the land of the free". I doubt you would claim that the US has in fact been a tyranny for that entire time, so your metric must therefore be flawed.