Re: Free Software vs. Librous Software

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:17:25AM -0400, Isaac Hummel wrote:
> Adam Ophir Shapira wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to coin a term, that term being "librous software". It means
> > the same thing as "free software" ("free" as in speech). The
> > advantage of using the term "librous software" instead of "free
> > software" is that now you won't have to explain over and over untill
> > you're blue in the face the difference between "free as in speech"
> > and "free as in beer".
> <snip>
> > It's about time we have a term that means the same thing, but which 
> > is free (no-pun-intended) of this ambiguity.
> 
> 
> We do have such a term already: Open Source. It is free of the ambiguity
> that you stated and I believe that it was coined for the same reason
> that you wanted to coin "librous" (incidentally, it should be liberous,
> not librous; librous would mean bookish or booklike).

Open Source != Free Software.

Confusing the Open Source movement with the Free Software movement
adds another layer to the confusion.  While both work closely together
and many of their goals are similar, the core values of the two
projects are vastly different.  

Free Software Foundation:  http://www.gnu.org
Open Source Initiative:    http://www.opensource.org

Personally I prefer the term GNU software.  It pretty much says it
all.

Dave V.

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