Why freedom matters (and how to define it)
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| And so it matters that a company purporting to be open source actually
| is, whatever the merits of their technology, so that customers can
| trust the source of their code. They need to have a shorthand way to
| know what they're getting from their code: perpetual lock-in or
| perpetual value with walk-away rights. It's a highly material
| question.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/why_freedom_mat.html
On keeping an open mind
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| So why am I writing this? The point is quite simple, and it is not
| about making the GNU community look bad. As a supporter of the GNU
| Project and Free Software for which it stands for, I wouldn't do
| that. I just think it is worth reminding that it is easy to fall
| into the boxed way of thinking, into "cultism" closed to outside
| opinion and that this failure is not in the interest of the
| Free Software movement.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/on_keeping_an_open_mind
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