Free software vs open source
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| I heard that the open source software movement grew up when it was
| noticed that people reacted badly to the idealism that the phrase
| "free software" suggests. In an attempt to attract more people to
| free software they decided to move away from the ideas implicit in
| the term "free software" and use their own term "open source" which
| promotes the practical benefits of this style of development.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/free_software_vs_open_source
So "Open Source" is no longer meaningful, due to noise. Free software is
wrongly perceived as "cheap". Maybe "Libre software" is the term to go with.
Related:
Facts and Friction on Open Source and Free Software
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| As for me, I would argue that in the spirit of those scientific
| ideals, having freedom as a prime goal as FSF does, would be the
| best thing to support. This is exactly what produced the "Open
| Source" method Linus loves so much.
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http://www.libervis.com/facts_and_friction_on_open_source_and_free_software
Corruption of the term "Open Source", courtesy of Microsoft:
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
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