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

[Jacek Podkanski]

I have a feeling that there was free software before RMS started the 
free software movement and I think there's no need to give in to 
pressure of one free software group who wants to keep the name for 
themselves. There must be better way of solving this.


On 05/01/13 22:57, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> 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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