Timeline for Tags for free software and free software?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Oct 6, 2014 at 16:28 | history | edited | Angelo Fuchs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
made tag names tag links.
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| Oct 6, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | @SmitJohnth There has been a proposal for freeware below. You might want to vote on it (otoh, this Question is old, if you really care you might want to bring it up anew, but you really should make clear why you oppose this thread) | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:13 | comment | added | Smit Johnth | I don't like word gratis, it's somehow unkommon. Should we use freeware intead? | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 13:48 | vote | accept | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | ||
| Feb 9, 2014 at 19:54 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @TimPost I think we have a consensus (or as close as it gets) on not using free. Can you rename free to gratis and blacklist free before we exit private beta? Otherwise I fear the ambiguity of free will soon become unmanageable. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:26 | comment | added | Izzy |
And to satisfy all: would it be an option to have a free-and-open-source synonym? So people starting to type "free" would get both variants. Never saw a "popup" on tag selection on SE (maybe we have no such on Android.SE, and that's why I missed them?)
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | MadTux | And maybe make foss/floss synonyms for open source software, for all those FSF guys :D | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 8:21 | history | edited | Angelo Fuchs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added improvement from comments
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 8:13 | comment | added | Tim Post Staff | Agree completely. It's going to be important to disambiguate 'free' for the purposes of taxonomy here, and while I personally use 'free software' instead of 'open source' - that's not the problem we're here to solve. RMS himself uses the term 'gratis' to differentiate between beer and ideals, so I think it's a fine term to use in this case. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 7:23 | comment | added | Nicolas Raoul Mod | When someone starts typing "free", we should display "Do you mean gratis? If not, please use tag open source". | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | jcolebrand | I think that what we need is a synonym for free to gratis with a proper description. Then people can use free and it will self-correct. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | Ben Miller | Agree on both: "open source" and "gratis" | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 22:07 | history | answered | Angelo Fuchs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |