Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Wikipedia day at Madlab

[Simon Ward]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:24:32PM +0000, Mark Reynolds wrote:

> >Is this just a slip, because it looks like a conscious decision was
> >made to find and replace all occurrences of “open source” with “free
> >software”? :P

> I'm primarily trying to aim this at a largely non-technical audience
> and using the event to introduce them to the basic ideas and concepts
> through something that they're already familiar with. This kind of
> political debate and infighting would put people off looking at even
> the basics.

The mis‐conception that free software needs to be described in terms of
open source is one very good reason why we need to have this debate in
the first place.  Free software should be explained in the terms of its
values.  The free software and open source philosophies are different,
and I don’t see it changing, they are always going to be different.
We’re here to advocate free software and its philosophies.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall

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