18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
11:35 a.m.
Atul Asthana @ home wrote:
I guess, we need to draft a letter which brings out the
comparitive advantages of using open source in the government. We also need to ensure that
OSS becomes part of school and college syllabi.
We can then publish the letter on various lists and let people choose as to what their
concerns are.
Hmm.. Again, a deluge of postings advocating `Open Source' through the
fsf-friends mailing list.
The Open Source Initiative is a tactic to market Free Software
principles. Now what? The open source fans are trying their tricks
here - trying to advocate and dump their contrived Open Source rhetoric
all over the FSF-India mailing list. Probably the open source
tacticians should all join together and start the Open Source Initiative
- India chapter. What a shame that we have to put ideas into their
heads. Oh, have no fear. Our open source friends don't really read and
understand what we write here. As usual, we could expect them to be dumb
about our protests and watch them continue with their usual tactics to
post unwelcome and inappropriate postings to this list in a casual and
brazen manner, ignoring the reasons why their `open source' label is not
fit to describe free software. [visit:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html ]
Recently slashdot reported a story `five' years old, in which Eric
Raymond says:
/The real disagreement between OSI and FSF, the real axis of discord
between those who speak of "open source" and "free software", is not
over principles. It's over tactics and rhetoric. -
/http://www.linuxworld.com/story/43966.htm
Enough of these tactics. Let us please stick to plain principles with
free software.
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