[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] 3rd pre 2.0 meeting

[MJ Ray]

paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at 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?  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.
-- 
MJR/slef, also treasurer of http://www.affs.org.uk/