Ely Levy wrote: >You are right I missed the part where OSI became stupid and immitated FSF >it wasn't always like that AFAIK. >you are right OSI and FSF are the same, but opensource and fs are not the >same by far. >one require the program to be free one require the program to be giving >with its sources. >and altough OSI no longer know the diffrance law people does. >they don't expect sun to give away solaris for free or ms to give windows >for free they want to have the source code with it. >even BSDI required license then suddenly they are not open source anymore? > >
AFAIK, what _you_ mean by 'free software' is actually 'freeware' (free as in beer..) > >Ely Levy >System group >Hebrew University >Jerusalem Israel > > > >On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Oct 02, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: open source law?": >> >> >>>OPEN SOURCE (not fs) >>> >>> >>Oh, let's not start this pointless and endless argument again :( >>There is no difference between "Open Source" (www.opensource.org) >>and "Free Software" (not copyleft!) licenses. These are two political >>camps, emphesizing different things - not two license types. >> >>If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... >> >>See also http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html >>where Stallman is admitting (surprise!): >> >> "... "Free software" and "Open Source" describe the same category of >> software, more or less, but say different things about the software, >> and about values. The GNU Project continues to use the term "free >> software," to express the idea that freedom, not just technology, is >> important." >> >> >>-- >>Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 2 2002, 26 Tishri 5763 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- >>Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |A Nobel Peace Prize? I would KILL for one >>http://nadav.harel.org.il |of those. >> >> >> > > >================================================================= >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] > > > > ================================================================= 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]
