From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: python.el changes in emacs-24
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:49:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XALGP-0002TT-AU@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k373zbup.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 05:15:10 +0200)
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The main difference in philosophy is that the Open Software Movement
indeed believes that Free Software was lacking the right buzzphrase for
selling the Four Software Freedoms.
That was true in the case of Bruce Perens, who described "open source"
as a "marketing campaign for free software". However, the other
founders of "open source" didn't care about freedom and regarded this
as an opportunity to dump ethics and justice entirely.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.
The Free Software movement is not focused on providing the catchiest
rallying cry. That's what the Open Source Movement considers important.
Actually, we do look for catchy rallying cries provided the cause
they rally people to is our cause. I've tried many of them over
the years.
What we avoid doing is weakening the cause in order to "gain support".
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
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Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 6:07 python.el changes in emacs-24 Glenn Morris
2014-07-21 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-22 6:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-07-23 10:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-23 14:37 ` Tim Visher
2014-07-23 14:44 ` Paul Eggert
2014-07-23 19:31 ` Tim Visher
2014-07-23 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-07-24 0:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-24 3:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-07-24 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-24 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-07-24 15:49 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-07-23 20:07 ` Tom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-24 17:14 Barry OReilly
2014-07-25 8:23 ` Stephen Leake
2014-08-05 13:30 ` Tim Visher
2014-08-05 13:58 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-05 22:23 ` Richard Stallman
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