> From: David Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source' is a newly published book > about Open Source ideology and business models. [...]
And there you have a problem. Open Source is a feature of some business models, not a class of them. If anything, its main ideology is being reactionarily anti-ideology. That is why prominent free software proponents, including this one mentioned in their promo: > [...] Richard Stallman [...] publish essays distancing themselves from 'Open Source', such as: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html Open Source is also an amazingly fuzzy term, as I noted in http://mjr.towers.org.uk/writing/ambigopen.html some years ago. The community should accept that Open Source Initiative (to secure a trademark) failed and move on. If you want to introduce people to the ideas around sharing creative work, then describing the free software definition (or maybe soon the free content definition), maybe lending them one or two of the historical books (Rebel Code or Free as in Freedom) and working together on something creative will be more illuminating, cheaper and more productive. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html North End, Lynn, Norfolk, England Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
