<div dir="ltr">Personally, knowing and being involved closely to the development/history of both Free and Open Source Software during the past 20yrs I think there is no point of trying to compare the 2 entities or distinguish one from another.<div><br></div><div>I rather see them one depending on another, meaning without Free Software I doubt that the Open Source Software would have existed but not vice versa and that clears almost everything. The way I see is that Free Software is the entity father (as per my comment on Scott's article) and the Open Source is the child entity.</div><div><br></div><div>Also making a comparison in terms of value I don't see it as a correct approach, again referring to the relationship between the 2 that I have just mentioned above. I'd mostly describe Free Software as a theorem and the Open Source is the module that puts into application that theorem. Stallman might disagree with me on this statement but I am use to him nowadays:-).</div><div><br></div><div>I know that the term Open Source is more popular these days simply because the term Free Software gets people into a confusion. Not everyone is keen to study the history or dig into the terminology or the meaning of something like the term Free Software. As Italian, it is easier in my language for example because in Italian the 2 terms are completely separate, Freedom and Free vs Libero and Gratis. That helps/helped a lot in my case but as Matthias mentioned in his article it is not the same in many other languages and in particular in English.</div><div><br></div><div>Either way, I find myself very comfortable to explain that the 2 are the exact same thing with addition of the reliance (or the existence should I say again) from one to another and I have no issues in using either of the terms. Today is more popular Open Source, that sounds perfect to me and I will stick with that but at the same time in a simple sentence (it takes 1-2 seconds and no need to tell the all history every time and to everyone) I can describe what I just stated in this email, to make sure people understands that they are pretty much the same.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if I explained myself, I hope I did and I'd actually love to have a discussion like this:-)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Matthias Kirschner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mk@fsfe.org" target="_blank">mk@fsfe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello all, <br>
I thought you might be interested in that blog post:<br>
<a href="http://k7r.eu/2-percent-discussion-free-software-or-open-source-software/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://k7r.eu/2-percent-discus<wbr>sion-free-software-or-open-<wbr>source-software/</a><br>
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Scott Peterson from Red Hat this week published an article "Open<br>
Source or Free Software". It touches on a very important<br>
misunderstanding; people still believe that the terms "Open Source<br>
Software" and "Free Software" are referring to different software:<br>
they are not! Scott asked several interesting questions in his article<br>
and I thought I share my thoughts about them here and hopefully<br>
provoke some more responses on an important topic.<br>
<br>
Would be interested in your views. <br>
Regards,<br>
Matthias<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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