Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--8d9965-Software libre works nicely, o/en

Software libre works nicely, or logiciel libre if you have to truckle to the Academie Francaise, in a way that free software doesn't at making that distinction. It was in part for that reason that some folks decided in the late 90's, that maybe they ought to try and find another phrase and settled on open source. That turned out to have more difficulties, I think, than benefits for the people who did it, though it now works very nicely as a way for business to identify its interest in what we do without committing itself to political or social philosophies that businessmen may not share or at any rate don't need to trumpet just in order to get their work done from day to day.