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On 12/02/2010 06:08 PM, Richard Fidler wrote: > And check out "Richard Stallman and the free software movement", > http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45532. > > That's those "Greenlefts" that Louis was castigating earlier today.... If I could change one thing about Lou, I'd make him less fond of ad homonym attacks. But anyway... In regards to "free software" versus "open source" terminology, Stallman and the Free Software Foundation have essentially lost the battle, though they won't admit it. Everyone else, sympathizers included, have accepted "open source software" as a synonym for "free software", even if Mr. GPL himself can't get over his old rivalry with (the admittedly despicable) Eric S. Raymond (who plays Christopher Hitchens to Richard Stallman's Not-a-Completely-Reactionary-Piece-of-Shit). I'm as dedicated to the philosophy of free software as anyone, yet I'll still use the term "open source", as it's undoubtedly more readily understood and *technically* descriptive. Imagine if the terms "socialism" and "communism" meant all the same things they do today, except the term "communism" came first. It's not that, except not. Unhelpfully, Jeff ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
