http://www.sevir.org/en/tags/software-libre/Recent content in software-libre on Dr. SeViRHugoenFri, 16 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200http://www.sevir.org/en/blog/the-price-of-free-software-for-a-programmer/Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200http://www.sevir.org/en/blog/the-price-of-free-software-for-a-programmer/<p>We often equate (even within the IT world) <em>Free Software</em> with <em>FREE OF CHARGE</em>. I hear plenty of clients tell me &ldquo;Use free software, it costs nothing, so it&rsquo;ll be cheaper.&rdquo;</p> <p>The usual way to argue this always starts with <em>Free</em> as in freedom being different from <em>free of charge</em>, a confusion that comes from a poor translation of the word <em>FREE</em> in <em>Free Software</em>, the original English term. But even so, when we think of Free Software, we think of free of charge.</p>