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Stallman on free vs. open
Posted by ram in FOSS, interesting articles, opinion on June 8, 2009
In a viewpoint piece in this month’s edition of Communications of the ACM, Richard Stallman makes the case that “Open Source misses the point of free software.” (See Why ‘Open Source’ Misses the Point of Free Software.)
Free software is software that protects our software freedoms–i.e., the freedom to use, modify, and share our software. Free software is free as in ‘free speech’ not as in ‘free beer.’ Read the rest of this entry »