Of course the Open Source movement would be nowhere without the GPL and GNU's previous efforts. I was talking about their relative strengths *now*, not their past interdependencies. Right now, even many of the 'official gnu' projects are run by people who fit squarely into the Open Source camp.
As to the differences- if you can point out one single difference between the Open Source movement and the Free SW movement which:
1. is not merely verbal 2. makes a practical difference 3. doesn't involve Open Source people simply not espousing a ludicrous view of RMS's which just about nobody in either camp supports
then I will be very surprised.
I'm not saying RMS has "lost" overall or anything, it's just that he's lost the terminology battle and needs to acknowledge that. He's won on many other fronts.
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Re:Is it called GNU/Crybaby?
Posted by: jensend on March 18, 2003 10:28 AMAs to the differences- if you can point out one single difference between the Open Source movement and the Free SW movement which:
1. is not merely verbal
2. makes a practical difference
3. doesn't involve Open Source people simply not espousing a ludicrous view of RMS's which just about nobody in either camp supports
then I will be very surprised.
I'm not saying RMS has "lost" overall or anything, it's just that he's lost the terminology battle and needs to acknowledge that. He's won on many other fronts.
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