On 12/12/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FOSS ain't freedom? Man, that's hilarious!
FOSS is not freedom. Free Software is freedom. this is why Stallman and many others hate the FOSS monicker. because people with vested interests can hijack it with semantics like "FOSS is not freedom." i am sure Dean and many others think the way they do because they've written some neat app on top of a Free stack and the heck they don't want their work to be "infected" with the viral GPL. he would find a ready and willing ally in Microsoft. well -- so long as your software is in-house, it need not be given away. even Stallman says that. but if you sell it to the public, and you use GPL code in your software, you are obligated to comply with the terms of the GPL. people tend to think "i did this thing.. it's mine, nobody has the right to take it away from me, that's infringing on my freedom." but many people's work is 80% Free software stack and 20% theirs. and they want to keep their 20% closed even while leveraging the 80% work of the community. and while that is a normal, greed-driven motive, it is not compatible with Free Software. is it compatible with OSS? yes. but not with Free Software. _________________________________________________ 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
