Noah Slater wrote:
You could develop some software in total secrecy and occasionally publish the code with a GPL licence. This would be Free Software but to call it Open Source would be a mistake because it does not follow an open development methodology.
Netscape was "open source" the moment they released the code; that was like the first the big open source win.
The development methodology is an adjunct. I agree that the open source attitude, if there is one, is that "it's better to develop code in large groups", and to do that you need a suitable licensing environment. But whether or not something is "open source" is nothing to do with how it's developed.
Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
