Re: Open source - Free software

[Jay Belanger]

Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> writes:
...
> Free Software may, but free software refers to software that's free
> (by any of the many definitions of the word "free".  (That's how
> English [and most other languages] works.)

Really?  The meaning of the adjective doesn't depend on the noun it
modifies? 
If someone gives me a person without charge, does that make that
person a free person?  If a newspaper is heavily censored but is given
without charge, is that a free press?
If a worker is described as green, should I wonder if they're new at
the job or have a skin discoloration?
This could go on, of course.  I can't speak for other languages, but
in English, context matters.

Jay