On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 10:35 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/22/2012 09:58 AM, Robert Nordan wrote: > > 1) "Open Source" or "Free Software"? > > > > This is about personal philosophy: Do you prefer the pragmatism of the > > Open Source Initiative or the political idealism of the Free Software > > Foundation? (Some of the candidates have already flagged a stance on > > this.) > > Please don't equate Open Source and "pragmatism", and Free Software and > "idealism". This suggests that Free Software is not also pragmatic, or > that Open Source developers are not idealists. This is a pet hate of > mine, and frames anyone who calls themselves a Free software developer > as not living in the real world. Free Software is all about pragmatic > idealism - using the system against itself to give users rights we feel > they should have as software authors. > > And, in fact, Open Source is also about pragmatic idealism - using a > different brand for the same thing to avoid an unfortunate ambiguity > doesn't change the fact that Open Source developers also care about > giving users rights they would not otherwise have. > > Thanks, > Dave. >
I'm so sorry, I was not intending to imply that one was better than the other or that they are diametrically opposed. Let me rephrase the question: "Do you prefer the Open Source Initiative approach to pragmatic idealism or the Free Software Foundation approach to pragmatic idealism?" -- Robert Nordan <r...@robpvn.net> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
