Jews, Gentiles, and the Open Source Definition | Linux Today

Jews, Gentiles, and the Open Source Definition

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Matt Asay
Oct 2, 2007

“I was read Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews today in the New
Testament (Bible) and stumbled across some interesting background,
background which resonates today in the open-source community.

“Paul wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews shortly after returning
to Jerusalem to find many of the Jewish Christians still ‘zealous
of the law’ (See Acts 21:20), despite roughly 10 years having
passed since the conference at Jerusalem which determined that
certain ordinances of the law of Moses (e.g., circumcision) were
not necessary for salvation of the gentile Christians. Paul then
wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews to try to re-frame the faith of
the Jewish Christians away from old ordinances…”

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