commercial != non-free software

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:52:10AM +1000, David Symons wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:23 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > While it may or may not be feasible to change the name of the
> > repository at
> > this time, I'd be interested to hear suggestions for meaningful,
> > intuitive
> > names which aren't defined as the opposite of something else.
> > 
> > "proprietary" is the closest that comes to mind. 
> 
> Very difficult, particularly on the intuitive side.  Some ideas:
> 
> - closed
> - closedsource

both of these would probably miff RMS a bit, since it subtly favors the
use of the term "open-source" over "free software" or "software libre".

> My choice (fwiw): encumbered

...which is why this was the first thing that popped into my head after
seeing your "closed" list. Cool!

Although, I'm actually cool with proprietary, too.

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