OK, usual caveat (thank you, English language): <bass monotone>By “free software” we mean “free as in freedom”</…>https://twitter.com/aral/status/760556272081051649 …
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As far as I know it's about the same thing really, but intentions are different (Free Software is about ethics, OS about business)
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Exactly, so not about the same thing at all ;)
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Yeah, but again shouldn't we focus on things which unite us? The
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oh I would have said the other way around!
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Free software is about perpetuating a healthy commons – open source is about the source being open (because good business)
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is it? Facebook is free ;-)
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I thought that’s what you meant, so I issued the standard disclaimer: https://twitter.com/aral/status/760557418917003264 … :)
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it's the difference between free software and Free Software.
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Indeed. Although I wrote open source in quotes and in lowercase also. I think it’s generic enough at this point.
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And Trump is effing Microsoft.
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?? Why would you compare US dem politicians with types of open source?
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what does that make Trump? Zero Day?
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Oracle blended with Microsoft.
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