Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Request for Endorsement for ConnochaetOS

[Quiliro Ordóñez]

Congratulations! I think that it is a great effort and that you are on 
the path to being a unique libre distro.


> BTW: I recently had a discussion on this one with some people from the
> Free Software Foundation Europe, the FSF's sister organization in
> Europe. Many people at the FSFE have a different point of view on this.
>
> They prefer the term "free software" as well, but they believe that
> "open source" and "free software" is the same and they don't think that
> both "free software" and "open source" community have different goals.
> So "free software" and "open source" are considered as the same
> community at the FSFE. You see, the view on this topic is not
> homogeneous in the Free Software Community itself.

Please consider that for the free software movement these are very 
different points of view. If someone told you the movements search the 
same goals, then they support the open source ideas and not ours. It is 
respectable but it is not our point of view.

For the free software movement, the goal is freedom. Technical quality 
is a desireable side effect. For the open source people, it is the other 
way around. Hardly, the objectives merge. Possibly the tools do but 
results are different. They are as similar as the pot and the weapon 
industries. Both search different objectives using steel. But they use 
different strategies to achieve different goals.
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"No se puede sacrificar la libertad por ningún bien, por ninguna promesa 
de pan o de paz o de justicia, porque ese pan tendría amargura de 
veneno, esa paz sería de muerte, y esa justicia no sería justicia humana 
ni tendría sentido." Alfredo Pérez Guerrero

"Não se pode sacrificar a liberdade por nenhum bem, por nenhuma promessa 
de pan ou de paz ou de justiça, porque esse pan teria amargura de 
veneno, essa paz seria de morte, e essa justiça não seria justiça humana 
nem faria sentido." Alfredo Pérez Guerrero