19 Feb
2020
19 Feb
'20
10:52 a.m.
On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 13:39:22 -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
I always understood "open source" to mean this: you have access to the
code, you can share it, you can modify it, and any combination of the
above (including commercial exploitation; basically a restatement of
Stallman's freedoms in simpler words).
I don't see those words as simpler. Ask any (wo)man in the street
what free software is, and they'll come up with a reasonable
approximation. As them what open source is and far fewer will know.
At the very best it's only intelligible in a limited environment.
And of course here in Australia, Open Sauce is a completely different
homonym. rms won't touch it either:
https://lemis.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/grog/Photos/20100916/small/rms-me…
Greg
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