2010/7/9 Martin Bähr <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:41:51AM +0800, Soh Kam Yung wrote: >> After reading the starting of this article [ >> http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12140 ] about 'FREE' >> software [ http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12162 ] I want >> to stop. > > hmm, he starts out with: "Who says good software comes at a price?" > so it's pretty clear he is talking about free food, not free speech. >
true. > and then he follows with listing "shareware, freeware and open source > software". so he doesn't list "free (speech) software". > No real respect is given to open source software. It is written in as an "oh, btw" - and not even worthy of consideration (because subtext: "not all of it is free beer! you'll have to do your own work to figure out what is what"). And then after that he lumps in "free open source software" with "freeware" - and then proceeds to tear "freeware" down (may not offer good value, little or no documentation, virtually no tech support)... And then at the end of the day, he says "the best things in life are free"? The article is confused. It's just all in all not a very well-written, or cohesive article. -jf > "two main groups of free software" means free food software, since he > mentioned price earlier. > > open source is then labeled as a third group, seemingly seperating it > from free food software. > > he labels gimp and openoffice as "free open source software" and > differentiates it from freeware google docs. > > then he focuses on the bad sides of freeware, talking about things that > we would not want to be attributed to free speech software anyways. > > in the applications list there are no labels for what type of license > that is, except for vlc and audacity identified as open source. > > it is sad that the focus is on price but even if he does not take the > step to explain what free speech software is, he at least does not mix > up terminology. > > using "free software" to mean "free food software" is not wrong. > > i don't see a reason for outrage. > > greetings, martin. _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
