On Wednesday 15 May 2002 7:21 pm, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:00:47PM +0100, phil hunt wrote:
Personally, I think "freedom software" would be a good term, since it loses the ambiguity ...
.... and gramatical correctness.
On the contrary, "freedom software" *is* grammatically correct, even if it is a bit odd-sounding. The grammar-rule in question is something like:
noun_expression : modifier noun
modifier : adjective | noun
IOW, an ordinary noun can be used as a modifier.
You can tell whether a modifier is an adjective by seeing if it can be used after "be". Examples:
"the red car" > "the car is red"
Therefore "red" is an adjective
"the image conversion" > *"the conversion is image"
Therefore "image" is a noun