Re: [Savannah-users] Survey about open source projects

[Mario Castelán Castro]

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December 10th 2009 in address@hidden for Adam Walczak
thread "Survey about open source projects"

>Beside open source developers care about ethical values too you know
>:o)

The point is than open source induces people to do not care about
freedom in software:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.

>Sorry. I hope this mistake won't discourage the free software
>community from taking part in the survey.

Your survey say "open source projects", that may exclude developers
that think of itself as free software supporters.

Free software and open source are very different viewpoints with
different set of supporters. As you survey says open source it may
exclude developeres that think of itself as free software
supporters. If you really want to survey both groups make the survey
to "Free software or open source developers" and add a question "Do
you support free software or open source?" (If there is not alredy
included).

You can survey only open source developers if you want, but if it's
the case please do it ouside Savannah.

Regards.
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2009/12/10 Adam Walczak <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
>> Please note that in GNU project we care about ethical values, not only
>> what is better technically, see
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. GNU
>> and Savannah-hosted projects are labeled as free software. Please do
>> not spam the Savannah community with open source things.
>
> Ah yes sorry for glorifying the open source term. I should have titled
> the survey 'open source and free software projects' as I'm also
> interested in the information that could come from free software
> developers. Among the last years open source has some who become an
> umbrella term for both free software and the so called 'commercial'
> open source and I've just fallen in to that trend.
>
> Sorry. I hope this mistake won't discourage the free software
> community from taking part in the survey.
>
> Beside open source developers care about ethical values too you know :o)
>
> --
> Adam Walczak
> www.openeo.biz
> +48 604 188 992
>