Re: Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source

[email protected] (Philip Hands) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:55:56PM +0100, Chris Croughton wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:56:34PM +0100, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:27 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: [...]
> > > > whether or not something is "open source" is nothing to do with how it's 
> > > > developed.
> > > And you could have open source code but a restrictive license for using
> > > it.
> > 
> > As far as I see it Free Software is a subset of Open Source.  It can't
> > be free (in the sense of freedom) unless the source is open, but [...]
>
> Are we talking about "Open Source" as in the "Open Source Definition"
> or are we talking about the dollop of blue goo I found under my kitchen
> sink, which may have been HP Sauce once, but I've decided to name
> "Open Sauce"?

Probably.  Confusing, isn't it?
Why "Open Source" software is too ambiguous
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/writing/ambigopen.html

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