On Tuesday 22 February 2000, at 22 h 1, the keyboard of Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree that "free software" is to be preferred, but your argument > is strange. "Open source" is a precisely defined concept (and thus > "means nothing" is untrue), In theory, yes. It is a trade mark, Raymond registered it, Perens wrote a precise definition <http://www.opensource.org/osd.html>, etc. In practice, look for "open source" in Altavista and you'll see what I mean.
