Erik Moeller wrote at last:
Yes, I do anticipate that others will be uncomfortable with such a name, but I'm uncomfortable with it myself.
Thanks, that answers my question!
I won't respond to anything that you said in detail, unless you ask me to do so specifically, because I wanted to define the terms of the debate more than actually press a particular opinion. (That is, there are two groups whose comforts to consider, and is the discomfort from our group only anticipatory.)
But now I'll join the debate a bit and ask you: When GNU and RMS say that you shouldn't say "open source": Is this just RMS' personal preference, or will they enforce it? Because I think that we should /definitely/ say "open source"; it's widely recognised, and it means something (which is not quite the same as "free", of course).
-- Toby