Re: [Fsuk-manchester] here's one to ponder..

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:05:13AM +0000, Simon Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:16:05AM +0000, Tim Dobson wrote:
> > http://infotrope.net/2011/01/28/why-im-not-an-open-source-person/
> > 
> > If you read the article and get wound up by the words 'open source',
> […]
> 
> Wound up?  Why would I?  I’m not an “open source” person either :)

Having actually read the article, it seems that the author *is* an “open
source” person, it’s just that it’s not the only openness he believes
in.

I believe in free software, and I’m very much a free software person.  I
also believe in open data (although apparently differently to some other
people—I go more for free in the same sense as free software than simply
“accessible”) and open standards.  Because I believe in these other
“open” things does not mean I should not continue advocating free
software.

Furthermore, these are just the things I pick out, and things that I
think I am more able to help with.  It doesn’t mean that I don’t believe
in other things, or that I consider myself not a free‐or‐open‐something‐
else person.

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

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