Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
You can use some nouns as adjectives, for example noun 'computer' can be used in some contexts as adjective 'computer' (computer program), but word 'freedom' can't because it's adjective form is 'free'.
No-one is suggesting that it is. I think the suggestion was that "freedom software" is a compound noun, not that "freedom" is an adjective here. Indeed, the difference to an adjective was shown.
If "freedom software" is "ungrammatical", do you also complain that "freedom food" is too? If not, consider that an example of your relation:
freedom food == food from-the-idea-of freedom freedom software == software from-the-idea-of freedom
Maybe a pattern could be extended to: mob rule == rule from-the-idea-of mob or there's probably a better example...
That's why the proper form is 'free software' not 'freedom software'.
I doubt that grammar inspired the selection of the term that much.
Probably this is enough language games for now. As long as we all agree that the important things to communicate are the freedoms, we can disagree over the best ways to do that.