On 14/11/11 22:39, James Morris wrote: > > that's the simple version. but what about the fsf vs open source?
"Open Source" is a marketing term chosen specifically to avoid frightening corporations with talk of "freedom". http://robmyers.org/weblog/2006/09/20/open-source-art-again/ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html > here's a link i found while searching 'news' on stallman criticism: > http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/216863/fsf-ac-cent-tchu-ate-positive A copyleft licence such as the GPL protects everyone's freedom to use software. A "permissive" licence such as the BSD or Apache licences makes an economic gift of source code to developers: they don't have to pass on the freedom that they have enjoyed with the code to anyone else. The FSF prefer the former and Open Source proponents often prefer the latter. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
