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Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source"


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source"
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:06:23 -0400

     > There is a reason for this: most of our community labels itself "open
     > source".

    That's the first time I've heard you refer to open source as "our
    community".  That is a welcome change!

It is not a change.  I have always said (since 1998) that the two
political camps in the free software community are the free software
movement and the open source camp.


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