MJ Ray wrote:

paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:

PS : some ppl in France says that "Libre software" is often used in 
english countries to avoid the "free" mistake (like free speach, not 
free beer). Is it true ?

English countries?  You mean England or all Anglophone ones?

I meaned anglophones.

Certainly,
in England (and the UK and I think the Irish Republic too), we say "free
software".  I have seen EU studies that call it "Free/Libre," though.

The US is home to the Free Software Foundation, so I suspect they call it
free software too.  Africa has the Free Software and Open Source Foundation
for Africa, so I suspect they call it free software...  I'm not there,
though, so I can't say for sure.

Don't believe everything people say: after all, some French people have
tried to tell me that "logiciel libre" is a translation of "open source"
which is rather naughty of them.

I don't believe everything. And that's why I ask anglophone readers from this list :-)
However, that's true that in French "libre" (free speech) does not mean "gratuit" (= free beer).

for open source <=> logiciel libre => whoh ! it's really stupid, I agree.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)