Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-22 Thread Richard Stallman
I am much more concerned about the fact that Open Source accepts an increasing variety of licenses Actually there is just a small difference between the set of licenses that are defined as open source and the set that we define as free software. There is only one known case where we

Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-22 Thread Paul Crowley
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually there is just a small difference between the set of licenses that are defined as open source and the set that we define as free software. There is only one known case where we disagree, and that is the Apple license. APSL 1.0, APSL 1.1, or

Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-22 Thread Miguel de Icaza
If anything, GNOME is part of the "GNOME movement" - any other group trying to take credit for it or call it their own, should reconsider their position. The "G" in GNOME stands for GNU. GNOME is part of the GNU project. Just in case you had not noticed ;-) Miguel.

Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-22 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Richard Stallman wrote: software. There is only one known case where we disagree, and that is the Apple license. Excuse me. That was originally said in conjunction with a few other things that I ended up taking out, because I couldn't figure out how to word it properly.

Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote: I agree with Richard that GNOME should be classified of part of the Free Software movement. I'm glad you said something -- I almost jumped in, but I'm not involved with Gnome. We are not working on GNOME because it is "economically" a good idea,

Re: RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-17 Thread Jacques Chester
X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy *Coughs politely* Jacques Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fifthly, the possible conclusions so far are: * That ESR is completely correct, that Free Software *does* break the LODR and that it represents a new economic phenomenon in production * That

RFC soon on essay Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?

1999-08-10 Thread Jacques Chester
Hello there; I'm sending this email to a number of people. The majority of you have already been asked in the past about what I am going to describe. Namely, I have asked most of you to perform a peer review of an essay about economics and free software. Some of you have *not* been asked