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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source
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MJ Ray |
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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:20:43 +0100 |
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"Philip Hunt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/04/2008, Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think he believes here is that Open Source Software and Free Software
> > have sufficiently different goals and ideals to merit different Wikipedia
> > articles as opposed to a combined article.
>
> Software doesn't have "goals" (unless it is some advanced AI project).
> People who write software do of course have goals.
I agree with that. I don't much are whether Wikipedia merges Open
Source Software and Free Software articles: at worst, it won't be the
biggest mistake in Wikipedia, like the times it fails at geography. If
someone was proposing to merge the FSF article with one about the
failed Open Source Initiative then I might bother to complain.
(Wikipedia's current article on OSI conspicuously fails to mention
what the initiative *was* and conflates the original OSI with the OSI
zombie corporation which is still running.)
> As I've mentioned, I write software and license it under the GPL. Can
> someone tell me whether that makes me part of the "Free Software
> Movement", the "Open Source Software Movement", both, or neither?
Neither necessarily. I feel it depends what organisation(s) you
support with your deeds.
Regards,
--
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- [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Noah Slater, 2008/04/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Philip Hunt, 2008/04/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Tim Dobson, 2008/04/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Noah Slater, 2008/04/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley, 2008/04/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Philip Hunt, 2008/04/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Dave Crossland, 2008/04/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Ciaran O'Riordan, 2008/04/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source,
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- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Dave Crossland, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, MJ Ray, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Noah Slater, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Alex Hudson, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Ian Lynch, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Chris Croughton, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Philip Hands, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, MJ Ray, 2008/04/09
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Simon Ward, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source, Philip Hands, 2008/04/09