On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > we have a new charter for our new Free Software, Open source and > > Wikimedia organization, > > > > The idea is to create a local organization that promotes and supports > > * free/libre software > > * open source > > Note that for software, "open source" is just a different word > for "free Software". > (The people use those different words for the same status of the software > out of different motivations.) > > The way you wrote it above, it looks like you believe those are two different > things, they are not. > It is a bit like saying, oh I like to eat apples, les pommes and äpfel.
Not at all. Open Source is a development method, Free Software is a political movement. Both of these things produce software as a byproduct. They can, and should, be treated differently. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
