Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Narya Forum and Project Incubator - savannah.nongnu.org

[Terry Hancock]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 06:23 am, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I forgot, please do not forget the comments I made in my first mail
> about you using the term "opensource" 

If you think that I'm going to alter the text on my *own company
webpages* to HELP you force people into such a stupid conflict,
then you are mistaken.  And you apparently have a very funny
idea of what "Freedom" means.

The words "Free Software" and "Open Source", to any disinterested
observer are simply different contractions of the more precise
expression "Free-Licensed Open-Source Software". 

I have come to the definite conclusion that any distinction 
between these concepts is both SPECIOUS and FACTIOUS and
serves no function to the developers nor to the users.

If the source isn't open, it can't be free, and if it isn't free, then the
source isn't open.  For software, there is no difference.

This distinction has served only to confuse newcomers, and
to cause dissention among developers and users.  I refuse
to take either side in such an irrelevant conflict.

> If this is fixed I'll approve your project!

Sorry.  I withdraw my request.  I am not so desperate for a
CVS server that I must submit to ideological tyranny to get
it.

Terry Hancock

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