Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Misunderstanding the Free Software Philosophy

[Michael Dorrington]

On 05/01/13 19:09, Jacek Podkanski wrote:
> There's a chance that distinction between Free Software and Open Source,
> one day might resemble distinction between Free Masons and stone masons.
> The sooner it happens the better. I think we need a clear separation of
> political zealotry from doing real work. Decision to use the term Free
> Software for use in politics was a bad idea. Inventing another term, for
> example something like Software Freedom Party, or even better Digital
> Freedom Party, would be a better idea.

RMS came up with term Free Software!  It didn't change to mean something
philosophical, it was from the start.  The article was saying that the
term is being used when a group or event isn't with this philosophy.

Mike.
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