{"id":4,"date":"2010-07-25T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-07-25T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:11:07","slug":"unfortunate-ambiguity-in-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate Ambiguity in the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The english language suffers an unfortunate ambiguity with the word &#8220;free&#8221;. Often times, the the word conotates free as in price, to which most people equate as there being a hidden cost somewhere. But in the world of &#8220;free software&#8221; this is exactly not the case. We&#8217;re not advocating for &#8220;free&#8221; as in price, but for freedom to experiment, tinker, and extend. In the spanish language, it has two words distinguishing the meaning: &#8220;libre&#8221; and &#8220;gratis&#8221;. There is no ambiguity. I suppose, as a free software hacker, the community could use &#8220;freedom software&#8221;, yet this doesn&#8217;t sound very good. I hope that someday the world at large will understand the importance of &#8220;free&#8221; software and insist upon it.<\/p>\n<p>brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The english language suffers an unfortunate ambiguity with the word &#8220;free&#8221;. Often times, the the word conotates free as in price, to which most people equate as there being a hidden cost somewhere. But in the world of &#8220;free software&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/?p=4\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","tag-free-software-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.com\/brian\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}