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Without Free Software, Open Source Would Lose its Meaning
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| Moreover, if the term âopen sourceâ becomes devalued,
| coders and users will become disillusioned, and start
| to desert it. The former will find the sharing
| increasingly asymmetric, as their contributions are
| taken with little given in return (something that may
| well happen even to open source companies using the
| GNU GPL if they demand that contributors cede their
| copyright, as most currently do). Users will similarly
| discover that some of these new-style âblurredâ open
| source applications fail to deliver the promised
| benefits of control, customisation and cost-savings.
|
| But, of course, the point is not âto go mainstreamâ:
| as Stallman said, it's about having âfreedom as a
| principle.â Spreading free software is about spreading
| *free* software, not free *software*: software is
| simply the means, not the end.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-free-software-open-source-would-lose-its-meaning
Recent:
RMS says Debian Mono decision 'risky'
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| The founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, has
| termed Debian's decision to include Mono as part of its default desktop task
| a move that "leads the community in a risky direction."
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora, recently decided to throw out
| Mono altogether from its default install, and replaced Tomboy with Gnote.
|
| While pro-Mono zealots often claim that it is possible to obtain a
| royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory licence for the use of
| Microsoft patents which may be part of Mono, in reality, it is extremely
| difficult to even find out how one can do so.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25954/1231/
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