On 28/08/11 21:19, Henry Jensen wrote: > Hi Quiliro, > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:11:51 -0500 > Quiliro Ordóñez <quil...@congresolibre.org> wrote: > >> Richard said he is discussing this issue with FSFE. FSF does not support >> that position. In fact, FSF regards opensource software as something >> good but the opensource ideas as bad. It sounds contradictory but it >> isn't because some of what they do agrees with what we do but not all so >> the terms are not interchangeable. > > Maybe things are a little different in America, but here in Europe the > terms are indeed interchangeable. Here is no such thing like a distinct > "open source movement". I never met an "open source activist" who said > "I am pro open source, but against free software" or vice versa. > Meanwhile I read about the history of the term "open source", > foundation of the OSI and the "schism" between "open source" and "free > software". Indeed I think, that this was a local american issue. It had > no effect here, because at the time it happended there was > practically no free software community in existence over here.
I am in the UK and I understand the difference so it isn't only America. And I am fairly sure that LibrePlanet Italia understands the difference http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanetItalia . The terms are only interchangeable by people/groups who don't understand or want to purposefully confuse them. Have a (re-)read of the following: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html http://opensource.org/history (particular the bit which says "dump the moralizing") Regards, Mike. Chair of Manchester Free Software.
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