"Philip Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/04/2008, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think he believes here is that Open Source Software and Free Software > > have sufficiently different goals and ideals to merit different Wikipedia > > articles as opposed to a combined article. > > Software doesn't have "goals" (unless it is some advanced AI project). > People who write software do of course have goals.
I agree with that. I don't much are whether Wikipedia merges Open Source Software and Free Software articles: at worst, it won't be the biggest mistake in Wikipedia, like the times it fails at geography. If someone was proposing to merge the FSF article with one about the failed Open Source Initiative then I might bother to complain. (Wikipedia's current article on OSI conspicuously fails to mention what the initiative *was* and conflates the original OSI with the OSI zombie corporation which is still running.) > As I've mentioned, I write software and license it under the GPL. Can > someone tell me whether that makes me part of the "Free Software > Movement", the "Open Source Software Movement", both, or neither? Neither necessarily. I feel it depends what organisation(s) you support with your deeds. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
