"Justin S. Leitgeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the recent talk about hosting rates, I think that we may be > neglecting what could be one of the most significant cooperative > movements in recent history -- the open source movement. In open source > software, the mantra, "Think of free speech, not free beer", has been an > important aspect of the movement. I want to spend a moment thinking > about how we can use the same philosophical orientation to benefit HCoop > in our own pricing schema.
Dude, you're thinking about the Free Software and not the Open Source movement. Please get your history right! Open Source does not care about freedom. Freedom is for dirty GNU hippies. Open Source merely notes that the open development model of Free Software produces better software. > The other part of the open-source mantra cited above claims that we > should de-emphasize the notion of something being free in terms of > monetary price. As everyone involved in HCoop is aware, hardware, > bandwidth, and (occasionally) professional services do cost money, and > in this sense particularly our cooperative cannot be free (pending a > unexpected, huge donation from a benevolent member or outsider). Again, this is a tenet of the Free Software movement and not Open Source. History matters. Ignoring the importance of the Free Software movement is very dangerous because Open Source does not care one way or the other about freedom, and will one day result in its followers losing their hard gained freedoms. (sorry for the OTish rant, but this is a *very* important thing to remember, and one of the things that grinds on my nerves when I see so many people attributing the philosophies of the Free Software movement to the watered-down philosophy-is-for-losers Open Source movement). -- http://unknownlamer.org Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:unknownlamer IRC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm just thinking aloud; isn't thinking allowed? 443E 4F1A E213 7C54 A306 E328 7601 A1F0 F403 574B _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
