semantics

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:56 -0600, charles zeitler wrote: 
> Do what thou wilt
> shall  be the whole  of the Law.
> 
> 
> On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote:
> >>
> >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software )
> >>
> >
> > Not quite.  FOSS is a umbrella term and using it is one way of avoiding
> > the free beer vs freedom confusion
> >
> yes, i can see that.... ( although i have seen some potentially
> misleading references to just "open source software" )

Also, GPL partisans insist that there is a difference between "truly
free" (i.e., GPL) software and "merely open-source" (i.e., non-GPL)
software.  That's a different and more subtle distinction than "free as
in speech vs. free as in beer").

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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