Z:gnu-www-ja-lessig-fsfs-intro--127a73-Yet the odd clink of the word/en

Yet the odd clink of the word &ldquo;free&rdquo; is a function of us, not of the term. &ldquo;Free&rdquo; has different senses, only one of which refers to &ldquo;price.&rdquo; A much more fundamental sense of &ldquo;free&rdquo; is the &ldquo;free,&rdquo; Stallman says, in the term &ldquo;free speech,&rdquo; or perhaps better in the term &ldquo;free labor.&rdquo; Not free as in costless, but free as in limited in its control by others. Free software is control that is transparent, and open to change, just as free laws, or the laws of a &ldquo;free society,&rdquo; are free when they make their control knowable, and open to change. The aim of Stallman's &ldquo;free software movement&rdquo; is to make as much code as it can transparent, and subject to change, by rendering it &ldquo;free.&rdquo;