[LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Wed Nov 22 11:47:41 PST 2006


On Nov 21, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:

> Jim Thompson wrote:
>> The "term" Open Source was a marketing campaign, promulgated by Eric
>> Raymond,
> What's wrong with a marketing campaign?  The more the merrier.

Wrong, at least in this context.   "open source != freedom".

> If I can live comfortably on donations, I wouldn't mind insisting that
> every piece of software to "free", whatever that means.  Wayne

you might want to review before we get into this.




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