sorry, sent the mail before finishing. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 07:58:34AM -0700, Aaron Wolf wrote: > Stef, you just posted on the Open Knowledge Foundation list a claim that > "Open" is specifically a suppression of ethics in favor of business aims. I > am sorry but that is nonsense.
as indicated in the context of sw it is not. > The OKFN clearly is not using "open" that way. i never implied so. maybe i'm mistaken, but i believe the author claiming copyright over said document is not representing the OKFN. > The historical fact that the term "open source" had connection to > rejecting the FSF's ethical aims does not mean that everyone who uses > "open" is aligning themselves with that view. indeed, but the claim "that open and free" are synomyms in the context of software is very worrying. -- pgp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg pgp fp: FD52 DABD 5224 7F9C 63C6 3C12 FC97 D29F CA05 57EF otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
