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Re: Open source - Free software

From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: Open source - Free software
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:55:24 -0500
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Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <mailman.7537.1159443714.9609.gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org>,
>  "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> "Free Software" is not "Open Source", since Open Source also means
>> non-free software.
>
> By that logic, dogs aren't mammals, because mammals also include cats.

Heh.  I suppose it depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Sometimes it means "equals", sometimes it means "subset of".

Jay
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