At Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:18:08 +0200, Patrick Ohnewein wrote: > > I am asking myself if the term "Open Standard" would be fine for us. > [...] > My question is: Is "Open Standard" an acceptable term for the Free > Software community and can we create our definition under the label > "Open Standard"?
To be honest, until this discussion I always thought that "Open Standard" = "Free Standard". I just used "free" because "open" is at least ambiguous, needless to mention the association with "Open Source". To answer your question: I think that nowadays, when the Free Software Movement is constantly threatened to be buried by the "Open Source Campaign", it is our duty to point out the differences and establish a new term. I think that the new term should be called "free standard", because namely freedom is what distinguishes it from the already spread out term "open standard". -- In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not just a policy -- it's the principle and the purpose. Proprietary software is fundamentally unjust and wrong, so when we have the opportunity to place it at a disadvantage, that is a good thing. --RMS _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion