Interesting indeed. I vote for using terms that define our values, not neutral ones.
Personallyq, I'm an activist, not an user. I want to spread my values, not rely on neutral term just "to reach" more people. If I reach more pople in the process, that's OK, but not a priority for me as free/libre software activist. I don't care for the "quantity" of people I reach for, I care for the "quality" of my message and the "quality" of my activism. I also try to copy/transport/mimic my personal values in my projects or in the projects I contribute to, so that I'm always "nitpicking" by mentioning the importance of free/libre software *philosophy* over time --- over and over when I have the chance, time and patience to do so. If however, I feel that I'm in an environment/project where it mainly focuses on "open source" (no matter if they use terms such as "fre/libre software" or "open source"), despite also doing the same thing as described in the previous paragraph, I sometimes feel less motivated to continue working on that project or tend to take/view the project's product/result with a grain of salt. Finally, Stallman also states ([1]) that supporters/followers/proponents --- and projects supporting/following --- free/libre software *philosophy* should avoid both "FOSS" (because of the misleading "free" part which reminds people of "gratis") and "FLOSS" (because it's too neutral). [1] <http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/2015-10-24--rms--free-software-and-your-freedom--seagl--speech.ogv> (under CC BY-SA 4.0). Matthias Kirschner <m...@fsfe.org> writes: > Hello all, > > I thought you might be interested in that blog post: > http://k7r.eu/2-percent-discussion-free-software-or-open-source-software/ > > Scott Peterson from Red Hat this week published an article "Open > Source or Free Software". It touches on a very important > misunderstanding; people still believe that the terms "Open Source > Software" and "Free Software" are referring to different software: > they are not! Scott asked several interesting questions in his article > and I thought I share my thoughts about them here and hopefully > provoke some more responses on an important topic. > > Would be interested in your views. > > Regards, > Matthias -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
