On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 09:42:00PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/31/14, Werner Baumann <werner.baum...@onlinehome.de> wrote: > > I don't feel the need to talk about "open soure" on depian-project at > > the moment. But if you do, don't forget the origins. A good summary is > > at http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/raymond2.html. It is > > really worth reading from first hand what the intentions of the > > Open-Source-campaign are. > > > > I especially like this bit: > > "It seemed clear to us in retrospect that the term "free software" had > > done our movement tremendous damage over the years. Part of this > > stemmed from the well-known "free-speech/free-beer" ambiguity. Most of > > it came from something worse--the strong association of the term "free > > software" with hostility to intellectual property rights, communism, > > and other ideas hardly likely to endear themselves to an MIS manager." > > :) > > That is funny. > > > > And so I will stay with the communist term "free software". > > It seems to me the term "libre software" resonates reasonably > unambiguously throughout 'the community'. Good luck getting > the FSF to use that term though... there are many years of > 'investment' in the term "free software" and it is embedded > deeply in license terms, and documentation. >
Hi Zenaan, No, in fact rms will quite happily use the libre word - wherever possible I use FLOSS - Free/Libre/Open Source Software - and emphasise that fact that it's not free of cost (or work - you still may have to check licence conditions/comply with linking/distribution restrictions) - but that the freedom is to modify, work with, fix bugs in ... FLOSS is a good word - even esr and Bruce Perens have come to appreciate that the OSD - based in turn on Debian's Free Software Guidelines - was, in retrospect a confusing factor and made things difficult. Hope this helps, AndyC > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSQSPDdsv_JCPu9ethPXuDTHREkt=mutbwqytw_041f...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140831130554.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk
