Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Free Software as a brand

[Simon Ward]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:15:43PM +0100, Lucy wrote:
> > I’m not sure the article is relevant to that comment, even though this
> > thread began discussing it.
> 
> It is relevant because the article essentially spoke about overcoming
> some of the differences between the two communities. We have so much
> in common, that rather than focusing on the differences we should
> stand up for each other. So no, while MFS is not an open source group
> we still have a huge overlap with that community and should still
> stand up for open source where that term is being used.

I think we’re actually on similar wavelengths:

Me:
  * Free software = yay.
  * Open source where the goals align with that of free software= yay.

You:
  * Free software = yay.
  * Overlap with open source = yay.

Simon
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