Walter Bright, el 18 de August a las 12:11 me escribiste: > On 8/18/2012 6:51 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: > >Maybe it's related to the tendency for programmers to be libertarians, which > >would also explain the whole open source software movement. They want to > >share > >knowledge freely, and online articles would be part of that. > > I find this peculiar, as the open source software movement is > frequently associated with communism, not libertarianism. (Although > I do think it is much more correct to associate it with > libertarianism.)
Well, free software[1] is closer to communism (or socialism), open source (as in the OSD)[2] is closer to libertarianism. "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement." -- Richard Stallman [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition [2] http://opensource.org/docs/osd -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cuando le dije si querĂa bailar conmigo Se puso a hablar de Jung, de Freud y Lacan Mi idiosincracia le causaba mucha gracia Me dijo al girar la cumbiera intelectual