In the Debian-Guide under "What is Free Software?", at the end of the first paragraph, it says: "Recently, some people have started calling Free Software ``Open Source Software''; the two terms are interchangable."
Also, the last paragraph of this document refers to www.opensource.org and www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html in this order.
In the light of many discussions here on this list, this seems unacceptable. The rest of the text seems quite good, though.
Perhaps someone should talk to the Debian people - or is there a Debian developer on this list?
Also, an encouragement to include similar texts in the more mainstream GNU/Linux distributions could help.
- Josef
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:25:05AM +0200, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:
In the Debian-Guide under "What is Free Software?", at the end of the first paragraph, it says: "Recently, some people have started calling Free Software ``Open Source Software''; the two terms are interchangable."
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In the light of many discussions here on this list, this seems unacceptable.
definitely yes.
Perhaps someone should talk to the Debian people - or is there a Debian developer on this list?
I can modify the pages, but since I'm not a Debian webmaster, I will first discuss it in the Debian webmasters list. I'll keep you informed of the outcome.
Jaime