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Time for a Free Software Business Initiative
Aug 11, 2007, 10 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4976 reads)

(Other stories by Danijel Orsolic)

[ Thanks to Danijel Orsolic for this link. ]

"It is not enough to have Richard Stallman travel around the world endlessly giving standard Free Software speeches among other things repeating how Open Source is not the same thing as Free Software and how the operating system widely known as 'Linux' is actually 'GNU/Linux' (because GNU project in fact started that OS). It is not even enough to have Free Software supporters constantly keep pointing these things out and arguing why they believe so.

"In my previous article I argued that the Open Source Initiative, founded as a reaction to the perceived unwillingness or ineffectiveness of the FSF to attract businesses to Free Software, was a bad solution because it was based on hiding of the most important part of what makes Free Software what it is, the user freedom. It emphasized business friendly aspects of Free Software at the expense of rather than in addition to its underlying political aspect - one largely based on bringing social and economic justice back to the software world..."

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FSF Prepares a New "Libre Planet" Campaign(Aug 06, 2007)



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