Congratulations! I think that it is a great effort and that you are on
the path to being a unique libre distro.
BTW: I recently had a discussion on this one with some people from the
Free Software Foundation Europe, the FSF's sister organization in
Europe. Many people at the FSFE have a different point of view on this.
They prefer the term "free software" as well, but they believe that
"open source" and "free software" is the same and they don't think that
both "free software" and "open source" community have different goals.
So "free software" and "open source" are considered as the same
community at the FSFE. You see, the view on this topic is not
homogeneous in the Free Software Community itself.
Please consider that for the free software movement these are very
different points of view. If someone told you the movements search the
same goals, then they support the open source ideas and not ours. It is
respectable but it is not our point of view.
For the free software movement, the goal is freedom. Technical quality
is a desireable side effect. For the open source people, it is the other
way around. Hardly, the objectives merge. Possibly the tools do but
results are different. They are as similar as the pot and the weapon
industries. Both search different objectives using steel. But they use
different strategies to achieve different goals.
--
Quiliro Ordóñez
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"No se puede sacrificar la libertad por ningún bien, por ninguna promesa
de pan o de paz o de justicia, porque ese pan tendría amargura de
veneno, esa paz sería de muerte, y esa justicia no sería justicia humana
ni tendría sentido." Alfredo Pérez Guerrero
"Não se pode sacrificar a liberdade por nenhum bem, por nenhuma promessa
de pan ou de paz ou de justiça, porque esse pan teria amargura de
veneno, essa paz seria de morte, e essa justiça não seria justiça humana
nem faria sentido." Alfredo Pérez Guerrero
