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Re: [fsf-community-team] What's in a name............
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Simon Bridge |
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Re: [fsf-community-team] What's in a name............ |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:33:18 -0000 |
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 08:38 -0700, James Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:31:46PM -0800, Mike VandeVelde wrote:
> > Hmmm... since you brought it up, and since it gets brought up *all* the
> > time...
> >
> > free (freedom) software
> >
> > community / communal software
> > public software
> > liberty / liberating software liberation
> > unrestricted software
> >
> > I kind of like:
> >
> > NATURAL SOFTWARE
> >
> > Like as in "free as a bird". Not tamed or domesticated. An ecosystem.
> > Survival of the fittest. Adapt or die. No holds barred. Code the way
> > nature intended.
>
> Why is a license needed at all then?
Probably the same reason we need wildlife preserves - though what we are
trying to do here is expand the preserve to the whole World.