Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
I think that you have missed the point. I don't believe that the intention of the discussion was to size-off the merits of Open Source and Free Software. Rather, my reading of the message was that it proposed that different projects work together to offer greater protection agai

Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-12-12 15:48:11 + Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When speaking about "facts" you know that Microsoft calls their initiative "shared source", not "open source", do you? I am sure you can find cases where that is not true. Not everyone speaking of "open source" speaks of "

Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-12 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Stripped off [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the list -- if it is an open letter it shouldn't be hidden in a closed list. * "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-12 14:16]: > I doubt that RMS is considering intentions, but is looking at facts. > > In current use, the term `open so

Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-12 Thread Robert J. Chassell
I think that you have missed the point. I don't believe that the intention of the discussion was to size-off the merits of Open Source and Free Software. I doubt that RMS is considering intentions, but is looking at facts. In current use, the term `open source' conflates at least two di

Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-11 Thread Horms
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > An open letter to the open source community about the security of open > source projects. > > Please don't think of the GNU system as an "open source project". GNU > is a free software project, part of the free software

Re: An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Stallman
An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source projects. Please don't think of the GNU system as an "open source project". GNU is a free software project, part of the free software movement. "Open source" is the label of a philosophy that we disagree with.

An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source pr

2003-12-09 Thread chris corcoran
An open letter to the open source community about the security of open source projects. With the recent attacks on open source projects I was stuck by and idea. I thought that open source projects could come together and pool there resources to form a project whose soul goal would be to protec