[lojban-beginners] Re: Parallell 2

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

la xiLI,odor. cu cusku di'e
> > Good point. Maybe {jai se zifre} is better?
> 
> No-no-no! <:-| I wrote that to completely leave the Anglicism behind.
> Software are simply not 'zifre', as are not chairs, source codes, or
> goods, either.

No, they do not {zifre} themselves, but they have something to do with {se
zifre}.

> They have nothing to do with liberty.

But they do! Software which you are at liberty to change, study, or
distribute.

> 'Free' here means You don't have to pay for it.

No, that is not what is meant by "Free software".

Software can be Free even if you paid for it! Free is *exactly* to do with
liberty.

At least in the context of "free and open source software". In the context
of "freeware", the "don't have to pay for it" meaning is the one intended.

The two are sometimes differentiated as "free-as-in-beer" (lo se jdima be li
no) and "free-as-in-speech" (lo jai se zifre).

mu'o mi'e .filip.