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Re: Matt Assay Tells the Truth


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Matt Assay Tells the Truth
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:43:05 -0500
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Rjack wrote:
Richard Tobin wrote:
Who ever thought that?  "Open source" was always a watering-down
of free software to make it more business-friendly.

I love revisionist history.

Aren't you even capable of reading the articles you yourself quote?

<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10170649-16.html>
    Open source, from its inception, has been avowedly
    pro-business. That was, after all, the whole point
    behind changing the terminology from Richard Stallman's
    preferred "free software" to Eric Raymond and Co.'s
    "open-source software."


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