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There are plenty of words in this particular universe that are thrown around a lot. You mention "openness". Another big one is "freedom". You can discuss to gre

There are plenty of words in this particular universe that are thrown around a lot. You mention "openness". Another big one is "freedom". You can discuss to great length what these words mean, but I'm not going down that route tonight. I don't know specifically what RMS has said and has not said. For the most of it I'm not interested. What I am interested in are the actions. Like him or not, but RMS has clearly done good things for anyone who believes computers should be devices that you and I are free to hack on on your own. (I'm carefully avoiding your TFA quote because I have nothing useful to comment on that. Yes, I agree that the API only has value because it's coming from this one company. I don't really think this has much to do with openness).

Semiapies 16y ago
I'm not really concerned about RMS. I just pointed out that he isn't about "open". To the extent that you're fond of free software and RMS, that's nice, but the topic is TFA.
- ZeroMinx 16y ago
  Alright, we're discussing "open" vs "free". Right now I don't care too much about semantics.. For anyone reading this that don't know what we're on about , read --> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... (edit: I generally agree with RMS's points. I might confuse "open" and "free". For anyone not native to English these words might be interchangeable. I'm not a native English speaker. It becomes clearer when you define the words such as done in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... , but in a day to day conversation, it's easy to get the exact definitions wrong)
  - Semiapies 16y ago
    "Alright, we're discussing "open" vs "free"." No, we're not discussing one thing vs. another, we're discussing different things. That is a whole other situation entirely.
- ZeroMinx 16y ago
  (yea I realized my distance from the TFA half way through my first post.. but decided to post anyway. (possibly a bad decision). And it has lead to a bit of a discussion. Which is good -- which is what I like)

Semiapies 16y ago

I'm not really concerned about RMS. I just pointed out that he isn't about "open". To the extent that you're fond of free software and RMS, that's nice, but the topic is TFA.

ZeroMinx 16y ago
Alright, we're discussing "open" vs "free". Right now I don't care too much about semantics.. For anyone reading this that don't know what we're on about , read --> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... (edit: I generally agree with RMS's points. I might confuse "open" and "free". For anyone not native to English these words might be interchangeable. I'm not a native English speaker. It becomes clearer when you define the words such as done in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... , but in a day to day conversation, it's easy to get the exact definitions wrong)
- Semiapies 16y ago
  "Alright, we're discussing "open" vs "free"." No, we're not discussing one thing vs. another, we're discussing different things. That is a whole other situation entirely.
ZeroMinx 16y ago
(yea I realized my distance from the TFA half way through my first post.. but decided to post anyway. (possibly a bad decision). And it has lead to a bit of a discussion. Which is good -- which is what I like)