the problem is even deeper. Go ahead and try to explain why "free software" is not "open source". http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html Nevermind, he'd rather stick with freeware/shareware terms ;-)
2010/7/9 Martin Bähr <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:41:51AM +0800, Soh Kam Yung wrote: >> After reading the starting of this article [ >> http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12140 ] about 'FREE' >> software [ http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12162 ] I want >> to stop. > > hmm, he starts out with: "Who says good software comes at a price?" > so it's pretty clear he is talking about free food, not free speech. > > and then he follows with listing "shareware, freeware and open source > software". so he doesn't list "free (speech) software". > > "two main groups of free software" means free food software, since he > mentioned price earlier. > > open source is then labeled as a third group, seemingly seperating it > from free food software. > > he labels gimp and openoffice as "free open source software" and > differentiates it from freeware google docs. > > then he focuses on the bad sides of freeware, talking about things that > we would not want to be attributed to free speech software anyways. > > in the applications list there are no labels for what type of license > that is, except for vlc and audacity identified as open source. > > it is sad that the focus is on price but even if he does not take the > step to explain what free speech software is, he at least does not mix > up terminology. > > using "free software" to mean "free food software" is not wrong. > > i don't see a reason for outrage. > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > searching contract jobs: programming, training and administration - anywhere > -- > pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org > foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org > unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
