Posted by: Serge Wroclawski
on March 18, 2003 01:29 AM
Not to counter this parent post, but to append to it.
Remember the original idea of Open Source. It was a way to sell Free Software to buisness, by not bringing up the Freedom issue. Soon after, essays by people such as ESR and Tim O'Reilly came out attacking the Free Software movement, saying that thier approach kept people from using Free Software.
Only now, some 3-4 years later, it's crystal clear even to the most skeptical that our freedoms are in danger, and that we must indeed mount a unified, *poltiical* and *philosophical* front.
Open Source is well known, but Free Software is not, even in our own commuity. It's more important now than it has ever been in the past.
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Re:"open source" vs Open Source?
Posted by: Serge Wroclawski on March 18, 2003 01:29 AMRemember the original idea of Open Source. It was a way to sell Free Software to buisness, by not bringing up the Freedom issue. Soon after, essays by people such as ESR and Tim O'Reilly came out attacking the Free Software movement, saying that thier approach kept people from using Free Software.
Only now, some 3-4 years later, it's crystal clear even to the most skeptical that our freedoms are in danger, and that we must indeed mount a unified, *poltiical* and *philosophical* front.
Open Source is well known, but Free Software is not, even in our own commuity. It's more important now than it has ever been in the past.
- Serge Wroclawski
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