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Richard Stallman |
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Re: What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage? |
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Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:28 -0500 |
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> >> I understand the idea to promote a FOSS enviromnent vs a proprietary
> >> one,
> >
> > A free environment.
> Isn't GNOME also open source? I thought "FOSS" means the conjunction of
> both.
I should explain that "free software" and "open source" are the names
of two very different ideas.
The free software movement is a campaign for users' freedom. The open
source non-movement was founded later as a reaction, to bury and hide
our ethical ideals.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.
The term "FOSS" purports to cite both of these camps without taking a
side. In practice, it is not really neutral, since it makes "open
source" more visible than "free software".
By contrast, "FLOSS" really succeeds in being neutral.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html.
However, we don't want to be neutral. GNU is a project of the free
software movement. We want to give the free software movement clear
and strong support; we don't support the open source non-movement.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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