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I understand what you mean and totally agree with you, I just feel the need to remind (not to you) the term free software, as many things are open source but no
by alfonsodev 7y ago
I understand what you mean and totally agree with you, I just feel the need to remind (not to you) the term free software, as many things are open source but not free software [1]
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
- elcritch 7y agoUnless the AGPL becomes the new GNU default, "free" software is largely moot as well in the age of SaaS.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoMost software I use daily is (luckily) not SaaS and as for AGPL being the default, for SaaS free software that's already pretty much the case today.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> I understand what you mean and totally agree with you, I just feel the need to remind (not to you) the term free software, as many things are open source but not free software [ Open Source and Free Software are, as your link points out from the latter side, divergent ideologies, but they aren't substantively different in terms of concrete meaning when it comes to licensing. It is absolutely not the case that “many things” are Open Source but not Free Software, though many projects producing software which is both Free and Open Source adhere to only one of those ideologies, at least as the projects dominant ideology.