[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Sniffen) wrote on 04.09.02 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Bear in mind, Russ, nobody is questioning whether TeX (or LaTeX) are
> *good* software, or *useful* software, or even *open source* software.
> The question is whether they are free software.
Statements like this really piss me off.
Open source software *is* free software, by definition, without exception.
In fact, given that "open source" is the same as "DFSG free",
*by definition*,
then if anything is not DFSG free then it's not open source, either.
MfG Kai
