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DATE | 2006-05-21 |
FROM | Richard Stallman
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SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux
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It seems to me like you have two philosophies, the open source philosophy and the free software philosophy. One is heavy on pragmatism, one is heavy on ideology.
It is a mistake to treat pragmatism and ideology as alternatives. They are on different, orthogonal dimensions.
The free software movement and the open source activity have different goals and values; free software has ethical and social goals, while open source has purely practical goals. However, each of these campaigns is pragmatic about achieving its goals.
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