"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com writes:
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39541519,00.htm
Uses the term "free software" rather than "open source", and appears to mean libre rather than merely gratis.
Yes. He uses “free software” and contrasts it with “proprietary software”, which one would expect of someone using free in the sense of freedom.
The article makes the familiar argument that in a healthy market any goods will tend to be priced very close to their marginal production cost, and the marginal cost of producing a new copy of an existing program is effectively zero; this is acknowledged by free software vendors, and not by proprietary software vendors.
(Though the intro and outro use "open source." However, in context I think that helps establish that by "free software" he does mean "libre" rather than "gratis.")
The intro and outro smell more of something added by an editor, so that doesn't necessarily mar the credibility of the article.