Z:gnu-www-ja-lessig-fsfs-intro--82ecc1-=26ldquo;Free.=26rdquo; Stallman l/en

&ldquo;Free.&rdquo; Stallman laments the ambiguity in his own term. There's nothing to lament. Puzzles force people to think, and this term &ldquo;free&rdquo; does this puzzling work quite well. To modern American ears, &ldquo;free software&rdquo; sounds utopian, impossible. Nothing, not even lunch, is free. How could the most important words running the most critical machines running the world be &ldquo;free.&rdquo; How could a sane society aspire to such an ideal?