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Re: "Open Source" is not the same as "Free Software"



On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:30:31PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:41:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > statements from Ean Schuessler:
> > 
> > So, basically, if you want to change the official Debian stance on the
> > issue, and therefore the web page, you need to talk to someone else than
> > debian-www.
> 
> Is Ean's stance the official Debian stance? In the [...] part that you
> omit it says:
> 
>    Wichert thought that trying to remain in control over opensource is not
>    going to win us anything; the trademark has been lost already and the
>    domain isn't all that useful and using it to control OSI will only be a
>    PR nightmare. Branden suggested turning the domains over, but
>    accompanying it with an open letter decrying OSI's habit of whoring
>    themselves out to any license with enough commercial backing.
> 
> Things have changed a lot since 1998 when Bruce Perens launched the Open
> Source movement based on the DFSG; and some web pages (like the one I
> was criticizing) have not been updated accordingly.

You should check out what "resolution" means in the other URL you didn't
quote :)

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