>>>>I don't know much French, but I wonder: has the Académie Française tried to come up with more Francophone computer terms? I have to think they wouldn't like the look of a word like "freeware".
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>>>Would "garment libre" do?
>>>(no, this is not even an attempt to make it French, just two word roots to start with...)
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>>Free-wear? That would be a donation from the salvation army or the Red Cross.
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>Not really, I meant something in the line of "liberated wear" :) , a semantical shift in the opposite direction from "This is a free country - you don't have to pay for it".

...or maybe "liberation wear" :) which would be fatigues and a red beret, or something like that.