It's All About Freedom
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| A debate often heard among FOSS evangelists across the world, is that using
| software is about "free as in freedom, not free as in beer". The libre vs.
| gratis argument rings no less true for some of the richest corporations in
| the world. I was recently at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in
| San Francisco and I was struck by the sheer number of Fortune 500
| corporations talking about their adoption of open source and explaining why
| they've signed onto the movement.
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| It's all about freedom: freedom to control, freedom to share, and freedom to
| build the open standards needed to protect the future of freedom.
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http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/02/its-all-about-freedom
Freedom to control?
Dragging one's feet to open source
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| But, regardless, while you're straddling the fence, please use accurate
| nomenclature. Call it "shared source" or "available source"
| or "look-but-don't-you-dare-touch-and-distribute source," but don't call it
| open source until you offer the right to fork. If the code can't be forked,
| it's just not open source.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9743248-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Do You Grok Open Source?
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| Their first question is indubitably: "Why would highly skilled people give
| away the fruit of their difficult labor?" Followed by, "If it's free, can it
| be any good?"
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/400904_p.htm
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