Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 19, 2003 06:29 AM
you are wrong on many points, but before i explain it, the main point should not be whether RMS is a kook.
-- free software WAS used in many places before the OSI. the 'mainstream' doesn't use VMS or mainframes, either...it doesn't mean that they don't have value, or shouldn't be used in banks.
--hardly everyone is "falling over each other" to get on the OSI bandwagon, in many areas....desktop, even servers. it is not, statistically, being used in the majority, by ANY stretch of the imagination.
--do not forget that it is these exact FS values (or rhetoric) that allowed the software endorsed by the OSS community to even exist. Linux ? good luck ripping out the GNU programs that make it what it is.
the reality is that it's not the FS vs. OSS...it's the ideas and philosophies and concepts behind BOTH that are important.
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Re:"open source" vs Open Source?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 19, 2003 06:29 AM-- free software WAS used in many places before the OSI. the 'mainstream' doesn't use VMS or mainframes, either...it doesn't mean that they don't have value, or shouldn't be used in banks.
--hardly everyone is "falling over each other" to get on the OSI bandwagon, in many areas....desktop, even servers. it is not, statistically, being used in the majority, by ANY stretch of the imagination.
--do not forget that it is these exact FS values (or rhetoric) that allowed the software endorsed by the OSS community to even exist. Linux ? good luck ripping out the GNU programs that make it what it is.
the reality is that it's not the FS vs. OSS...it's the ideas and philosophies and concepts behind BOTH that are important.
Stallman should have spoken, kook or not.
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