On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:41:36PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > well i don't think it requires any twisting at all - surely openness(sp?) > > in software reflects a desire/belief in an open society/world? > Richard Stalman believes that Free Software is political. That is why > he disagrees with the Open Source movement, because it does not share > his political and philosophical outlook.
what is political and what not is hard to define because of the definition of politics anything could be political, so i rather stay out of that. i agree with the philosophical difference. the open source movement stresses the practical (=financial) advantage, while free software stresses the social advantages. > Listening to him, I get the impression that he is more interested in > values, rather than process. i feel the same. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe (hungary) open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
