Free software is nothing to fear
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| So maybe the question is not whether "open source" has become
| meaningless. Maybe the real question is, why we are still talking
| about it at all? There's a truly revolutionary way of producing
| software out there. It's called free software. Maybe it's time
| more of us started calling it what it is.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/05/10OPopenent_1.html
Nearthwort Obtain interviews Richard M Stallman - a transcript of the
interview
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| RMS: The term open source was coined many many years later by people
| who were in the Free Software community and liked Free software but
| they didn't like the ethical and political approach of the Free
| software movement. They liked Free software in a practical sense.
| They appreciated it , they enjoyed the benefits of these freedoms.
| They didn't want to use the term freedom, they didn't want to look
| at these as an ethical question. they didn't want to ask whether
| it is wrong for a program not to respect your freedom.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/03/nearthwort-obtain-interviews-richard-m.html
A New Breed of Free Desktop Companies
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| In the past two years, GNOME and the GTK+ projects have inspired
| many enterprising hackers to start companies and risk investing
| capital into a market that surprisingly has shown to be robust,
| providing not only adequate funding for these companies but room
| enough to expand operations. Sri will discuss where Fluendo has
| been and where they are going.
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http://gnomejournal.org/article/54/a-new-breed-of-free-desktop-companie
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