Re: What does "libre" refer to in the context of a software license?

p-0 0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
> they come to tell us how much better they are than us scummy users of 
> 'proprietary' software,

Well, 'they' shouldn't do that.

There is good and bad proprietary and there is good and bad open and 
there are advantages and disadvantages to dev/ing software 'both' 
different ways.

One complicating feature of open is the *variety* of copyleft licensing, 
of which *you* have much better insight than the rest of us, because you 
have chosen to involve yourself in its understanding more than most.

It IS true that linux fans LUV open source and tend to 'follow' the old 
arguments found in ES Raymond's '99 Cathedral/Bazaar book and previously.

There's plenty of room for development in both spheres.

-- 
Mike Easter