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| DATE | 2005-04-09 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] SuSE and Emperor Linux
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Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
>>That must have been a very long time ago. As you know there's only been
>> 3 releases in the last six years and Woody and Sarge have been
>>all-free. At this point, Debian is "purer" than Richard is, as they
>>have rejected the FDL as non-free.
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> That's the measurement of Freeness?
No, in fact it's an indicator that Freeness is an arbitrary thing for
which there is no ultimate arbiter. Debian's declared the FDL non-free,
obviously the FSF begs to differ. It's currently less of a problem for
Free Software than it is for Open Source, which frankly is a mess, and
according to Pamela Jones, stacked with people who think like Sun, and
are looking to pretend to be Open, rather than actually being Open
Source. In this regard, it's just as poor a choice of naming as Free
Software is. (people confusing price and freedom) With Open Source,
there are people who want you to confuse being able to _see_ the code
with being able to use it as you wish. These companies want to turn
Open Source into Microsoft's "Shared" Source. I'm sure it's no surprise
that CA thinks Sun's CDDL is a good thing, CA still has no idea with
Open Source or Free Software actually are, and they're bound to be
easily mislead even if they mean well. (which I'm not vouching for)
> I'm planning on spending a few dollars to let an expert do this.
> If I wanted to run an installfest, I'd do it for others, but I'm not
> that interested for my own purposes.
Tell me about it. That's _exactly_ how I feel.
- Ron
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