"free tagging" has 13,300 results while folksonomy has 1,220,000 results according to googlefight. It's not that "free tagging" is bad, it's just that we are creating another barrier. Look at taxonomy vs. categories... it's still more accessible to call it "categories" while the savvy developer know that "Drupal categories" is another name for a rose called "taxonomy". I am ready to admit that "free tagging" is not folksonomy, but again, taxonomy vs. categories. You can say that taxonomy vs. categories is the camel nose in the tent. I will disagree.
There was a long discussion about this in the IRC channel when I was developing free tagging. In short, it's named "free tagging" because folksonomy is a cute buzzword that doesn't mean anything. Likewise, there are so many different kinds of folksonomies (such as delicious, where any user can tag any content, or Flickr, where you only tag your own), none of which Drupal currently supports. And, I disagree with you at a most basic level: anyone who thinks "categories" is a good idea is, in my opinion, just plain ol' wrong. -- Morbus Iff ( masochism-oriented recombinant bot (unlisted series) ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus