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Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware



On Jan 11, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:

> FYI: there are people out there who are still angry at ESR/OSI for
> hijacking the term "open source" to mean essentially the same thing as
> "Free Software" instead of what they used it for; anything with
> publicly released source code.
Actually it is the other way around: "open source" was intended to mean 
essentially the same thing as "Free Software".
If you feel like a free software historian you can have a look at the 
debian-private@ archive to see how the name was born and why.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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