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Re: software libre?
by Hank Miller on Thursday 06/Dec/2007, @10:05

Others have described the meaning well, but to go into more detail of why we use libre and not free: In English the word "free" has two different meanings. The first is free as in free beer. The second is free as in free speech. In Spanish they use Gratis for the first, and libre for the second.

There is a lot of software that costs nothing, but isn't free in other senses.
Micorsoft's Internet Explorer is one example of this.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre

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Re: software libre?
by Patcito on Friday 07/Dec/2007, @05:09

Actually libre can mean gratis in Spanish too.
Exemple: entrada libre / free entrance

it's just less comman than in English.

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