Cocoy wrote: > its not about making software a free commodity. thats called "Free > Software" a different animal all together. Open source doesn't just > mean access to the source code.
That is of course patently untrue. Free Software speaks about Freedom not price. Isipin mong Kalayaan at hindi Libre. Richard Stallman advocated these ideals more than a decade before the Open Source movement even formally existed. It is Open Source that takes these ideals and considers them to be the basis for a more efficient methodology of building software. Read Stallman's essay on this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html and be edified. In short, the Open Source camp cares only about these freedoms that you go on to list in so far as they produce better software than the proprietarian software mode of production. They just happen to coincide with the ideals which the Free Software/GNU people hold dear. The GNU people on the other hand, consider these freedoms as inalienable rights that everyone should have, and if it means dealing with poorer software for a time, then so be it. It's a subtle difference, but an important one. Please don't go around asserting that certain groups hold ideals that they actually don't. The only camp that seems to be absolutely interested in making software a free (as in beer, as in Tagalog "libre") commodity might be the hardline BSD people. The hardline GNU-ists like Stallman and Moglen believe differently. -- Après moi, le deluge http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
