Greetings, Back in August 2006, there was a fairly long thread kicked off by rms requesting that "open source" be replaced with "free software" on the gnucash.org web page: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-August/018378.html
It culminated in this message from Thomas: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-August/018411.html which, together with the following replies, seemed to imply that the changes would be made. But, in fact, they never were -- the web page still says "open source". Someone else just reported this to rms and me, so we'd like to get it resolved this time, one way or another. Help? Although I agree that the double meaning of "free" is especially unfortunate for accounting software, there is no good alternative. (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html is rms' latest essay about this. From the standpoint of GNU and the free software movement, it would be better to refrain from saying anything than to say "open source".) Perhaps it would go some way toward resolving the confusion to say "free as in freedom" somewhere in the initial description on the web page. Just an idea ... Thanks, karl _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
