"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/15/rms_why_open_source_needs/ [...] > The open source movement was founded in 1998 by people who wanted to > talk about our system without mentioning the political ideals that > motivated us to develop it. [...]
Much respect for Stallman, but I don't think that's accurate. He wasn't at the founding meeting (which was a bug), the initial statement http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html doesn't reflect that and I don't think anyone can seriously think ESR is scared of politics. Maybe the open source movement was promoted, encouraged (co-opted?) by people who wanted to avoid mentioning the political ideals, but I don't think it was founded by them. Anyway, if one wants to promote free software, speak about free software. Don't obsess about what open source is doing. Play the ball, not the other player. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
