On Wed, Aug 14, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: Essay about Free Software - in Hebrew": > On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 02:43, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > http://nadav.harel.org.il/essays/chofesh/ > > > > 1. Absoultly fscking briliant :-)
You're making me blush :) > 2. One nitpick - I would avoid pitting 'commercial software' (Tochna > Misharit) againt 'free software' because it implies that free software > cannot be commercial. How about 'closed software' (Tochna Sgoora)? You're right. People have suggested that to me before, when I let them proofread the text, but I decided not to change it. My problem was that in an essay for laymen, I can't use the phrase "Closed Software", "Closed Source", etc., before I define it, and to define that I would first need to define what being "Open" would mean - and that's the content of the rest of the essay. It's a sort of chicken-and-egg problem. So I decided to use the laymen term "Commercial Software", commercial in the sense that it is the software you'd expect to find in your local computer store and pay for. 99% of that software is indeed "Closed Software", and I think that most laymen will understand what I meant by "Commercial Software". If anything, it might slightly confuse open-source aficionados that can recite 666 business models based on free software :) Later in the essay, when I talk about who is writing free software, I mention that certain commercial companies might find it beneficial for them to write or contribute to free software. However, the resulting software is rarely refered to as "commercial software": commercial software isn't the same as "software created by a commercial company". > 3. I think this should go on the IGLU wbe site. Mind you, not to put a > *link* on it on the IGL web site, I mean on the site permenanatly as a > 'Manifesto' of sorts of what we are aiming to do and why... Sure, feel free to make a copy. But please try to preserve the hyperlinks and some of the formatting (i.e., cut-and-paste is bad). -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Aug 14 2002, 6 Elul 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Jury: Twelve people who determine which http://nadav.harel.org.il |client has the better lawyer. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
