Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

On 3/29/21 12:26 PM, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Martin<[email protected]>  [2021-03-29 13:57]:
>  From the paragraph above, I can see you did not get the difference
> between the free software and open souce. And your analogy is not
> right. You mentioned price not freedom.
I know that gnu definition and in general I'm on your site here, but 
unfortunately besides us and other small groups of geeks the "free 
software" term just sounds too general in my opinion. People in 
supermarkets while choosing some free stuffs in promotions usually are 
not thinking about freedom. Besides freeware software like facebook 
(with all its network, cloud services, etc) gives you also some kind of 
freedom of socializing with other ppl in their platform. In general 
facebook is not only about price, they control almost every aspect of 
human lives around the globe including people who are not using their 
apps directly. Some random person by just reading the gnu header that 
"free software is better than open-source" could easily misinterpret it 
as facebook being not so bad only because it's not open-source.
> We use the word "free software" to clearly refer to freedom, we may
> use words such as libre software to refer to freedom.
Libre is just more blurred spanish, french,... translation of the word 
"free" redefined by GNU. So the core issue with this confusing term is 
still not resolved.
> We do not use "open source" as that is vague term, and does not
> necessarily mean "free software". The distinction is more and more
> important today.
Ironically the word "free" is much more vague then "open-source". The 
problem I mentioned above is that "free software" unfortunately could 
also mean freeware for too many people who are not professional English 
linguists nor IT specialists.

Moreover definition of "free software" is not mentioning about 
importance of https://reproducible-builds.org/ nor 
http://bootstrappable.org/ which should be in the highest priority for 
any RMS/FSF/GNU/Free organization to finally address pathological issues 
like: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00091.html