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by rmmm 7y ago
Freakonomics Radio had Dr. Atul Gawande on a year ago (April 2018) and discussed medical checklists among other things. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/atul-gawande/
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by rmmm 8y ago
Where in the article does the OSI mention or hint at anything about threat of law? The OSI does have the legal right to tell you what they think Open Source is. You have the legal right to ignore it. All OSI did is say "here is our def
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by rmmm 8y ago
I wasn't referring to legality, only replying to the idea that "open" and "source" are "just two words". For an example closer to the subject at hand, the Free Software Foundation makes it clear what does
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by rmmm 8y ago
It's pretty well known who coined open source and why. It's also known shortly thereafter OSI started protecting the definition. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source... http
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by rmmm 8y ago
Bourbon is just a just a name. Champagne is just a region. But whiskeys and wines have to fit narrow qualifications to be Champagne sparkling wine, or Bourbon whiskey. You can, of course, call any software you want open source regardless if
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by rmmm 9y ago
> So, why should the Open Source community be so damned forgiving when we're surrounded by entities who'd eat every last one of us for lunch if we so much as accidentally used a copyrighted resource? For a few reasons. 0. Becau
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by rmmm 9y ago
> I thought it was primarily to remove the implicit assumption that free software was necessarily non-commercial. I've heard Bruce Perens talk about it a few times, and even on the OSI website ( https://opensource.org&#x2F
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by rmmm 9y ago
Wasn't open source coined as a way to remove ideals from the discussion? This is why (as annoying as it gets sometimes) it's important to make the distinction between open source and free software. Free software has ideals.
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by rmmm 9y ago
It is very cool to see TechCrunch give some publicity to a product and project like this. A few thoughts though. When I buy products like this, it's not to "stick it to the man". I would love major companies to provide freedo
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by rmmm 10y ago
For the lazy and/or mobile... "Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and HP. Acer tied Apple for fifth place."
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GNU Toolchain now accepting donations with FSF support(fsf.org)
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by rmmm 10y ago
No. The rift is not over the license itself. From the mail archive Benno states... > > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF, nor to > > anyone else. All the code I write is GPL'ed. You don't n