Re: Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source
"Philip Hunt" <[email protected]>
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On 06/04/2008, Tim Dobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Philip Hunt wrote: > > > On 06/04/2008, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The Wikitrolls and OSI appologists on Wikipedia are planning to merge > > > the > > > articles on Free Software and Open Source to avoid "nitpicking and > > > agenda-advancing" despite the obvious absurdity of this. > > > > > > > It isn't obvious to me that this is absurd. > > Open Source and Free Software are separate things. I write software and license it under the GPL. Is this "Open Source" or "Free Software"? The answer, of course, is that it is both. > I think he believes here is that Open Source Software and Free Software > have sufficiently different goals and ideals to merit different Wikipedia > articles as opposed to a combined article. Software doesn't have "goals" (unless it is some advanced AI project). People who write software do of course have goals. As I've mentioned, I write software and license it under the GPL. Can someone tell me whether that makes me part of the "Free Software Movement", the "Open Source Software Movement", both, or neither? -- Philip Hunt, <[email protected]> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html