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To go mainstream, free software needed to become open source. Anything Free software is Open source (But not vice versa). Am I wrong?
by chanux 17y ago
To go mainstream, free software needed to become open source.
Anything Free software is Open source (But not vice versa).
Am I wrong?
- gizmo 17y agoYou're not wrong. What the author means is that software maintainers need to embrace compromise instead of Stallmanesque freedom. The first he calls open source, the second Free.
- twopoint718 17y agoI know it is somewhat jargony, but FLOSS, meaning Free (Libre) and Open Source Software, is what "Free software" means. I think that makes clear that OSS is FLOSS without the "FL." The problem (often mentioned) is that "free" is overloaded in English.