OSI email group gets catty over Microsoft's Permissive License request
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 69.158.7.136]
on August 18, 2007 09:29 PM
Richard Stallman and the FSF might be irritating. But do you know why I find them irritating? Because increasingly I am finding that they are right!
The term "open source" has become so debased that the biggest enemy of open standards, interoperability and computer user freedom can contemplate one of it's stinky little licenses as being "open source".
Stallman is right. "Open source" is weak. It isn't enough. We do need to talk about "free as in freedom" a whole lot more.
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OSI email group gets catty over Microsoft's Permissive License request
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 69.158.7.136] on August 18, 2007 09:29 PMThe term "open source" has become so debased that the biggest enemy of open standards, interoperability and computer user freedom can contemplate one of it's stinky little licenses as being "open source".
Stallman is right. "Open source" is weak. It isn't enough. We do need to talk about "free as in freedom" a whole lot more.
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