Re:Communication revamped - push Free BIOS as term
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 09, 2006 12:02 AM
Yes, if you let them think about "at no cost".
High quality usually requiers a lot of time and effort, and when you are trying to do something technically hard without documentation one could be tempted to call it "futile slave labour" - yet - there it is. So it's obviously made by some really smart people, and smart people don't like low quality, so "poff" to your argument.
People who are computer-literate do not know what the GPL means in general. Developers don't care about licensing issues, but their manager might - if explained without three letter abbrivations - hence "free as in freedom" - and "beneficial terms of use" - "quality control and code audit by external party is allowed" would probably do the trick.
It doesn't hurt to use "free" in the sense the FSF uses it. It is a regular word, unlike GNU, GPL and "Open Source" - the last one has introduced so many difficulties into my native language that it makes me rather annoyed.
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Re:Communication revamped - push Free BIOS as term
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 09, 2006 12:02 AMHigh quality usually requiers a lot of time and effort, and when you are trying to do something technically hard without documentation one could be tempted to call it "futile slave labour" - yet - there it is. So it's obviously made by some really smart people, and smart people don't like low quality, so "poff" to your argument.
People who are computer-literate do not know what the GPL means in general. Developers don't care about licensing issues, but their manager might - if explained without three letter abbrivations - hence "free as in freedom" - and "beneficial terms of use" - "quality control and code audit by external party is allowed" would probably do the trick.
It doesn't hurt to use "free" in the sense the FSF uses it. It is a regular word, unlike GNU, GPL and "Open Source" - the last one has introduced so many difficulties into my native language that it makes me rather annoyed.
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