Hello all,
I thought you might be interested in that blog post:
http://k7r.eu/2-percent-discussion-free-software-or-open-source-software/
Scott Peterson from Red Hat this week published an article "Open
Source or Free Software". It touches on a very important
misunderstanding; people still b
Personally, knowing and being involved closely to the development/history
of both Free and Open Source Software during the past 20yrs I think there
is no point of trying to compare the 2 entities or distinguish one from
another.
I rather see them one depending on another, meaning without Free Soft
Interesting indeed.
I vote for using terms that define our values, not neutral ones.
Personallyq, I'm an activist, not an user. I want to spread my
values, not rely on neutral term just "to reach" more people. If I reach
more pople in the process, that's OK, but not a priority for me as
free/libr
Addendum: Both the free/libre software movement and the open source
development model generally produce and work in the same projects. The
differences are in ideology and this can also result in discussions for
which the decisions affect the resulting product --- which might have
some side-effects
Hi Adonay,
> As is already present in the reference I made to Stallman's talk, some
> of the differences in the ideology of those two groups are visible in
> the choice of license type, presence (or absense) of license enforcement
> (and how it's made) and how they behave when noticing derivatives
Jonas Oberg schreef op do 16-11-2017 om 15:10 [+0100]:
> I would posit though that to the extent there's a difference between two
> groups (I'm not convinced there are, at least not so distinctly), then the
> difference is not between whether they use "Free Software" or "Open Source"
> as a term, b
Adonay Felipe Nogueira schreef op do 16-11-2017 om 11:25 [-0200]:
> Finally, Stallman also states ([1]) that supporters/followers/proponents
> --- and projects supporting/following --- free/libre software
> *philosophy* should avoid both "FOSS" (because of the misleading "free"
> part which reminds
Hi Carmen,
> There is a difference between the groups. "Open Source" is a tool or
> methadology, not a moral stance or ideology like "Free Software" is.
That's a popular stance, but I don't believe it's justified. In either case,
if you hear someone talking about Open Source, you can not, from t
Jonas Oberg schreef op do 16-11-2017 om 16:03 [+0100]:
> That's a popular stance, but I don't believe it's justified. In either case,
> if you hear someone talking about Open Source, you can not, from the term
> alone, determine whether that person ascribes to it a moral stance or
> not. You need t
On Friday 10. November 2017 15.53.26 Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> As on Wednesday a committee in Munich decided to do the Windows Munich
> Migration Project (let's call that "WiMue" for short in future ;) ) I
> thought you might be interested in this LWN article about my talk on the
> migration in M
Indeed, not all people in favor of lax/permissive licenses are "open
source" proponents, because these people might as well shift their views
in favor of copyleft licensing depending on how important the project
is.
Also, just because a project denotes itself as "open source", this
doesn't mean th
You are indeed correct.
If one wants to be neutral, one can use "FLOSS".
The same reference states that free/libre software activists don't need
to be neutral, and this is what I said earlier. ;)
Carmen Bianca Bakker writes:
> Important to note is that he does prefer "FLOSS" for neutrality[2]:
Stefan Umit Uygur wrote:
Personally, knowing and being involved closely to the development/history
of both Free and Open Source Software during the past 20yrs I think there
is no point of trying to compare the 2 entities or distinguish one from
another.
There isn't just one point, there are mul
Hi,
I wanted to stay out of this discussion because I cannot believe that we are
even having it, but it is difficult :-)
> On 17. Nov 2017, at 09:13, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
>
>> I rather see them one depending on another, meaning without Free
>> Software I doubt that the Open Source Software wo
Hi J.B.,
I am going to quote you quickly without breaking the entire commentary as
it is more readable...
Mine was just a response and purely referred to the article, not an
abstract of all possible points. Pls pay close attention 😉
Re to your statement about self-contradictory part, you are in a
Amen!
Finally, thanks Mirko, totally with you on this. Didn't read your comments
before l replied to JB.
Well said in simple words.
On 17 Nov 2017 2:31 am, "Mirko Boehm" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to stay out of this discussion because I cannot believe that we
> are even having it, but it is dif
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