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Re: Office 365 Opinions

The term 'libre' is frequently used in open source context. It's a French and Spanish word that means free, as in "freedom" (rather than "free" as in cost.)

This has been a constant source of discussion in the open source communities, where "free" is supposed to mean "free as in freedom", but it's frequently interpreted as "no cost."

In fact, one of the most common acronyms for open source software is FLOSS which stands for "Free/Libre Open Source Software"



On 12/12/2013 1:29 PM, CRPence wrote:

FWiW the term /libre/ presumably having etymological origin with
/libertas/ is akin to /freedom/ and /unconstrained/ so the full name
LibreOffice with "Office" included, has an intended implication. And to
be clear, while the ability to obtain the source may be no-cost, the
implication of freedom is surely not solely with regard to cost, even if
with /word play/ it does; almost surely, mostly the term was chosen to
imply freedom /from/ the proprietary MS Office software :-)


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