Re: [Rant] DigitalOne's confusing FREE feature

the problem is even deeper. Go ahead and try to explain why "free
software" is not "open source".
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
Nevermind, he'd rather stick with freeware/shareware terms ;-)

2010/7/9 Martin Bähr <mbaehr-J82dVEKiPgVsIEQYbtjsvCEcasqEdqbRs2V0tQ3P5b8@public.gmane.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:41:51AM +0800, Soh Kam Yung wrote:
>> After reading the starting of this article [
>> http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12140 ] about 'FREE'
>> software [ http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12162 ] I want
>> to stop.
>
> hmm, he starts out with: "Who says good software comes at a price?"
> so it's pretty clear he is talking about free food, not free speech.
>
> and then he follows with listing "shareware, freeware and open source
> software". so he doesn't list "free (speech) software".
>
> "two main groups of free software" means free food software, since he
> mentioned price earlier.
>
> open source is then labeled as a third group, seemingly seperating it
> from free food software.
>
> he labels gimp and openoffice as "free open source software" and
> differentiates it from freeware google docs.
>
> then he focuses on the bad sides of freeware, talking about things that
> we would not want to be attributed to free speech software anyways.
>
> in the applications list there are no labels for what type of license
> that is, except for vlc and audacity identified as open source.
>
> it is sad that the focus is on price but even if he does not take the
> step to explain what free speech software is, he at least does not mix
> up terminology.
>
> using "free software" to mean "free food software" is not wrong.
>
> i don't see a reason for outrage.
>
> greetings, martin.
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