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You are right about the distinction
Between the "Open Source" movement and the "Free Software Movement", but I think you have it backwards as to who is more radical. Stallman and FSF view the Free Software as a social movement in opposistion to proprietary software which they consider a moral evil which harms society. Open Source is a development model which OSS advocates argue produces technically superior software. Niether camp argues against making money off of software, as long as you share your code. Because the "Free" software camp makes a moral distinction about software, as opposed to "Open Source's" technical distintion, I'd class the "Free" camp as more radical
Posted by: btidwell   Posted on: 08/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Well, Dana...  Userama | 08/26/08
troops !?  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
commitee is more like it... not troops.  shryko | 08/27/08
still a military analogy  shis-ka-bob | 08/27/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  btidwell | 08/26/08
Not the same thing  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Maybe not the best example  btidwell | 08/26/08
GPL and Copyright  daengbo | 08/27/08
You are right about the distinction  btidwell | 08/27/08
What I said  daengbo | 08/27/08
open source extremism lives.....  xuniL_z | 08/26/08
It's everywhere  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Yup, Windows extremists too...  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Differences  xuniL_z | 08/28/08
Open source extremism lives AND turns  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
You used to be fun, now you're just boring.  kozmcrae | 08/26/08
Ah, an extremist tells me  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
It's gotta hurt then that...  T1Oracle | 08/28/08
I was under the impression...  AndyCee | 08/27/08
Did you expect party discipline?  John L. Ries | 08/26/08
Good one, John  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Stallman and 'extremists'  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
Indeed.. Right On  TedKraan | 08/27/08
Absolutely agree.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
Thing is, though  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Open source is not a business movement  jimmyed2000 | 08/28/08
Not quite  Someguy2 | 09/03/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  joshuagay | 09/09/08

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