Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2006 12:16 PM
There is really zero difference in the licenses that are included under the OSD and the FSD.
That is true only to a superficial observer. In fact the values underlying the definition of the OSD and FSD are very different. One is aimed at reassuring corporate "suits" that the software is greed-compatible while the other is designed to promote freedom.
The fact that "open source" licenses are also almost always accepted as "free" by the FSF only goes to show that the "open source" definition did not add *anything* at all substantative. It just a marketing ploy designed to strip free software from its "suits"-alienating values.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2006 12:16 PMThat is true only to a superficial observer. In fact the values underlying the definition of the OSD and FSD are very different. One is aimed at reassuring corporate "suits" that the software is greed-compatible while the other is designed to promote freedom.
The fact that "open source" licenses are also almost always accepted as "free" by the FSF only goes to show that the "open source" definition did not add *anything* at all substantative. It just a marketing ploy designed to strip free software from its "suits"-alienating values.
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