mac wrote: > Dave Walker wrote: >> And for those that missed it, myself included: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/ > > Just listened to it. An implicit lesson in the difference between 'Open > Source' (=pragmatic - better ways to make money and advance corporate > interests) and Free Software (=principled - about ensuring individual > freedom and enabling sharing communities). > > I found it telling that the BBC programme did not once mention either > Stallman, GNU, or the Free Software Foundation, despite lengthy > discussion of Linux and Torvalds. > > A shame that it omitted half of the story. But then, I suppose, if you > construe democracy as a better way to do shopping, as the programme > seemed to want to do, it's hardly surprising you find Stallman inconvenient.
Some contact with bbc feedback is called for? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
