Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git

[tomas]

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> 
> > David> Uh, an arbitrary political decision wiping away all technical 
> > arguments
> > David> is what started free software in the first place.
> >
> > Only for the revisionists.  Free software existed long before the GNU 
> > Project.
> >
> > The GNU Project's contribution was a legally enforcable license to ensure
> > share-and-share-alike for authors who chose to use the legal system to 
> > enforce
> > their politics.  This was definitely an important contribution at the time,
> > but it wasn't the thing that "started free software".
> 
> Free Software, ("Free" in the GNU sense), is nothing without a legally
> enforceable license that protects its freedom. Maybe you are talking
> about what later was known as Open Source? (BSD license, etc).

Oh, noes. You are confused. BSD *is* free by FSF standards[1]. Open
Source is a term coined much later for those who want the advantages of
free without the politics (or put in another terms: to avoid scaring
the suits).

Watch Theo de Raadts rants about _even GNU_ being not free enough to
know what I mean :-)

Open == Free - ethics.

Regards
- -- tomás
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