2009/3/9 Noah Slater <[email protected]>: > Unfortunately, where I would normally agree here, the FSF's definition of > software freedom is the canonical one. Debian has it's DFSG, which is fine. > The > OSI has it's own too, which is great. But it is perfectly reasonable for > someone > with an FSF hat on to disagree that this is free software.
Oh yes, advocacy is perfectly understandable. However, confusing a strongly held opinion with an objective fact is muddled thinking, e.g. GNU/Linux versus Linux - the former is an opinion that FSF advocates like to state as a fact, the latter is what the rest of the world calls it in English. (I started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy and helped get it to Wikipedia featured status.) - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
