On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
The free software movement, the GNU project or the FSF do not aim at "better software through peer review". They (we) aim at people's freedom, and better software is just a side effect [1].
On the other hand, the open source movement (no capitals for lazy typing) aims at better software for everyone through peer review; people's freedom is a side effect.
It's that easy. Not a big practical difference, only a big theoretical difference.
Simple as that!!! Very interesting.
I never thought it that way. I can't find any valid objections to those statements apart from the fact that they sound too good to be true :-)
Objections, anyone?
But I've got my RMS poster photo right here :-), and I sometimes think we should stop talking about this and just start translating Stallman's works....
andrew