On Thu, Oct 03, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: open source law?":
> If you misunderstood their "open source" definition, don't feel bad: that's
> *Exactly* what Perens and his friends meant to do (see the "Remaking the meme"
> chapter in O'Reilly's "Peer to Peer" book). They deliberately chose a term
> that can be confused to mean something conservative and capitalistic,
> instead of the term "free software" that is more easily confused (?) with
> being communist, anti-business, anarchistic, left-wing liberal.
I just found out that that chapter, written by Tim O'Reilly, is available
freely online. See:
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/05/book_ch01_meme.html
The "Free Software vs. Open Source" section starts on page 2.
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