From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, nicolas@petton.fr, dak@gnu.org,
pierre.lecocq@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1a7cLA-0003iL-Op@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4d0bmh4.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:21:27 +0100)
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> >> I understand the idea to promote a FOSS enviromnent vs a proprietary
> >> one,
> >
> > A free environment.
> Isn't GNOME also open source? I thought "FOSS" means the conjunction of
> both.
I should explain that "free software" and "open source" are the names
of two very different ideas.
The free software movement is a campaign for users' freedom. The open
source non-movement was founded later as a reaction, to bury and hide
our ethical ideals.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.
The term "FOSS" purports to cite both of these camps without taking a
side. In practice, it is not really neutral, since it makes "open
source" more visible than "free software".
By contrast, "FLOSS" really succeeds in being neutral.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html.
However, we don't want to be neutral. GNU is a project of the free
software movement. We want to give the free software movement clear
and strong support; we don't support the open source non-movement.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-12 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 12:50 What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage? Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 13:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 13:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 13:20 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-11 13:23 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 21:05 ` Pierre Lecocq
2015-12-11 21:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 23:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-12 5:03 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-12-12 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 22:35 ` Random832
2015-12-11 23:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-12 0:26 ` daniel sutton
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