Debian-Guide

Jaime E . Villate villate at fe.up.pt
Thu Jul 26 12:00:57 UTC 2001


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."
...
> 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



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