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Re: Revisionist Open Source
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Ciaran O'Riordan |
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Re: Revisionist Open Source |
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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:46:49 +0000 |
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Rjack <user@example.net> writes:
> The conceptual underpinnings of "open source" and its benefits
> predated ESR
They can't. "open source" is just a marketing campaign for free software.
You could argue that the concept of "free software" existed before RMS or
GNU. That seems to be what you are arguing.
There, you're welcome to your opinion.
I'd say that free software predates RMS, but the free software *movement* is
something he started.
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Ciarán O'Riordan, +32 487 64 17 54, http://ciaran.compsoc.com/
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Re: Revisionist Open Source, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/17