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From: Richard Stallman<rms@g...>
Date: Fri May 14 11:21:03 CEST 2004
Subject: [oc] One issue about free hardware
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".
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.
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