[code_sloth]

> Referring to Microsoft Windows as "free software" is just wrong. Microsoft Windows is not Free Software.

Free has many meanings. Look up the dictionary [1]. In the context of the situation / article, it is free. As in $0. As in costs nothing. Context matters, and the FSF / open source context does not apply here.

This ridiculous insistence on the "one true pure" meaning and rigid interpretation of words is a like cancer of stupid infecting humanity.

[1]: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/free

[lolc]

"Free software" has an established meaning within our field. Notice how I was complaining about the title, where naturally the context is very broad.

[lovich]

Free software has always had two meanings. "Free as in speech or free as in beer", is a phrase used commonly in software development for a reason