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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [matt@modestolan.com: Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The?Linux?Journal]
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From: Matt Thrailkill
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So you're saying its only marketing, and very few users take that
message to heart and use Nvidia's binary drivers and things like that?
That most open source users reject binary drivers and binary software?
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 11:23 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick-at-zork.net):
>
> > I wish I could remember who it was that first observed "Open Source
> > gives the same answer to every question that Free Software does, except
> > 'Why?'"
>
> I'd say it takes the stance that everyone in our base constituency
> _already knows why_ -- that reaching a broad range of others in
> _addition_ to ourselves requires a marketing _campaign_ couched in
> pragmatic language. OSI's Web site is explicit about this in a number
> of places, including http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/faq.php :
>
> The Open Source Initiative is a marketing program for free software.
> It's a pitch for "free software" because it works, not because it's
> the only right thing to do. We're selling freedom on its merits. We
> realise that many organisations adopt software for technical or
> financial reasons rather than for its freedom. Many users learn to
> appreciate freedom through their own experience, rather than by being
> told about it.
>
> I fully understand people not wanting to participate in that marketing
> campaign. I decline to do so myself -- though, more because I don't
> want to waste my time on software advocacy than for any more specific
> reason. However, I just wanted to point out that asserting that open
> source people don't care about freedom just because it isn't featured in
> their targeted marketing campaign is a (blatantly) non-sequitur argument
> -- and demonstrably wrong in some obvious cases, such as OSI itself.
>
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