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From: Erez Birenzwig<erez_birenzwig@y...>
Date: Fri May 14 22:35:02 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".
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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