On 4/11/07, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> GPL advocates claim their license prevents commercial entities from
> stealing their freedom. These are the same people who have no
> problem giving up their freedoms (in the form of NDA's, closed-source
> kernel modules, etc) to the companies they're trying to fight.
True free software movement supporters will not sign an agreement not to
help their neighbor such as an NDA. Some in the open source movement
have no trouble accepting a binary only driver, or specifications under
NDA, or what have you, for convenience. That's what open source is
about: convenience, not freedom for its own sake. This is exactly why it
is important to make a distinction between the free software movement
and the open source movement and not lump the two together.
Exactly. And it's a distinction that must be made again and again and again.
