On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
On Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009, jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
we have a new charter for our new Free Software, Open source and Wikimedia organization,
The idea is to create a local organization that promotes and supports
- free/libre software
- open source
Note that for software, "open source" is just a different word for "free Software". (The people use those different words for the same status of the software out of different motivations.)
The way you wrote it above, it looks like you believe those are two different things, they are not. It is a bit like saying, oh I like to eat apples, les pommes and Àpfel.
Not at all.
Open Source is a development method, Free Software is a political movement.
Both of these things produce software as a byproduct.
They can, and should, be treated differently.