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Just my two cents on terminology... An old evil marketing trick is to

>     Just my two cents on terminology... An old evil marketing trick is to
>     subvert other's terms and causes.  It can work both ways...  If people
>     want to call their free software "open source", why fight them.  It
>     might be easier to encourage the use of "open source" to mean "free
>     software" in casual use (as seems to be happening).
>
> It won't work.  Our voice is much weaker than the voices of all the
> real supporters of open source philosophy.  To spread the ideas of
> free software, the only method is to spread the term "free software".

That's fine, I suggest we'll use Free Software from now on to describe
what I assume is the unmodified GPL license.

>
>       I think there's no danger of people
>     on this forum getting confused by the term IP.
>
> Nearly everyone who uses the term gets confused by it, even lawyers
> who know better.

Well, lawyers know what they want to know :) And IP in their mind
is the patanet, or more likely, the money they'll make from registering it.
:)

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