From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli!
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:50:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muw1sa8u.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wov680o7.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:25:12 +0200")
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> On 2018-06-07, at 20:00, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> GNU _is_ open-source (because it satisfies the definition), but doesn't
>>> _like_ being called like that, since this gives false impression due to
>>> terms like "open-source" being quite loaded.
>>>
>> At the risk of sounding quite rude and assuring it's not my intention at
>> all: do you _like_ to be called an animal?
>
> Wow, I didn't see that coming. Even if the analogy is slightly flawed,
> point taken. I'm now leaning more to being convinced that insisting on
> not being called open-source is a good idea.
From someone, who is not a developer, I wonder if the term "free
software", ought to have "freedom" or "ethical" in the name. Many
English speakers assume that "Free Software" is gratis. Maybe we could
call it "Ethical Software" or "Libre Source".
>
> Best,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 17:42 Three cheers for Eli! Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-28 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-28 19:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-28 20:29 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-30 10:29 ` Van L
2018-05-28 19:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-29 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-29 13:52 ` T.V Raman
2018-05-29 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-29 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29 18:02 ` George Plymale II
2018-05-30 7:04 ` Tim Cross
2018-05-30 10:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 18:29 ` Jefferson Carpenter
2018-05-29 14:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-29 14:40 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2018-05-29 15:10 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2018-05-30 7:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-30 8:15 ` Boruch Baum
2018-05-30 10:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-05-31 15:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-05-31 22:57 ` John Yates
2018-06-01 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-01 14:02 ` John Yates
2018-06-02 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-02 12:30 ` John Yates
2018-06-03 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-03 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-04 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-04 4:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-04 5:09 ` Amin Bandali
2018-06-04 8:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-04 8:53 ` Van L
2018-06-04 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-07 17:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-07 18:00 ` João Távora
2018-06-11 3:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-11 13:50 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2018-06-12 0:35 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-15 17:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-15 17:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-15 18:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-15 18:10 ` João Távora
2018-06-04 23:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-07 17:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
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