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Google doesn't find it objectionable. The FTC doesn't find it objectionable. Where are all these objectors, aside from a few forum users? Seriously, show them to us. Show us all that it's something a lot of people object to rather than something you and a few other people object to?
I can show you that huge organizations, including the organization in charge of regulating the use of the word 'free' in the United States, approve. What can you show us? I'm not trying to be combative. I'm just saying: There are many large and in some cases (like Google) ubiquitously accepted and respected organizations (to the point where the name of the company is now a verb) backing our point of view. I'm showing you, in black and white, who is backing our point of view and just how absolutely standard it is. This shouldn't be controversial at all.
Can you do the same? Can you show us that your point of view has ANY significant backing aside from you and a few other forum users? I don't mean speculate. I don't mean, "Well, I'm sure people agree with me" as that is meaningless. As Protoss said, the meaning of a word ends up being defined by what a large majority of the population understands it to mean, and that, virtually indisputably as far as there is any evidence, includes how we use the word.
--matt
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