On 19-Jul-2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
| I don't call Linux "Free Software". I haven't called it that for close to | ten years! Because I think the term "Open Source" is a lot better. `--alpine.LFD.0.98.0706141153550.14121@woody.linux-foundation.org--
Whether Linus chooses to refer to "free software" has no effect on whether it *is* free software. Its recipients all have the essential freedoms like any other free software, therefore it is free software.
Linus can call a horse a hamster if he chooses, it doesn't change the nature of the thing. Nor does it mean others should stop calling a horse a horse.