Re: semantics

2010-04-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/02/2010 02:18 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:56 -0600, charles zeitler wrote: >> Do what thou wilt >> shall be the whole of the Law. >> >> >> On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: 1) "free and open source soft

Re: semantics

2010-04-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:56 -0600, charles zeitler wrote: > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. > > > On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > >> > >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) > >> > >

Re: semantics

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:26 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > yes, i can see that ( although i have seen some potentially > misleading references to just "open source software" What is misleading about that? Some context would be useful.uh huh. but is there really something _called_ the "stable release" >

Re: semantics

2010-04-01 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: >> >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) >> > > Not quite. FOSS is a umbrella term and using it is one way of avoiding > th