Talk:Free software community
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[edit] FS and OSS
The free software community is not the same as the open software community and this probably should be changed the reflect this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.131 (talk • contribs) 09:13, 2006-11-13
- The free software philosophy and the open source philosophy are very different. Free software and open source software (the software, not the philosophies) are the same thing. The community of people who use free software is the same as the community of people who use open source software. The free software community contains people who disagree with the free software movement. Gronky 16:23, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
This should clarify the difference. I suggest someone updates the article accordingly and insert this reference. Kctucker 18:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Possible reference
I found this interview with RMS:
About how to judge companies that interact with the free software community. I can't see where to add it now, but maybe it has a place. --Gronky 09:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
- Apart from being considerably out of date and (putting my not-an-official-work-position hat on) issuing the standard, Slashdork-level "Sun is always partly evil" line that ignores all the GNOME a11y work, it's an opinion piece only tangentially related to the subject. I'm not sure that the community as a whole has a single voice, though insofar as it does I don't think it's much keener on being told what it thinks by RMS than it is by ESR. Chris Cunningham 09:36, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
