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Re: Three cheers for Eli!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli!
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:49:04 +0300

> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:30:09 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > Instead of attempting to explain it myself, I'll refer you to
> > this [0] article by RMS, called Why Open Source misses the point
> > of Free Software, which explains it much better than I could.
> 
> I understand that, but Eli said
> 
> > There's no doubt open-source projects do
> > exist, it's just that GNU projects are not among them.
> 
> I thought that GNU projects are rather in the intersection of "free
> software" (in FSF sense) and open-source.  That sentence confuses me.

If yiu understand what Richard wrote in the article pointed to by
Amin, then I don't see how it could confuse you.  the GNU project
explicitly does NOT want its software to be labeled "open-source".



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