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Re: Three cheers for Eli!
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Three cheers for Eli! |
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Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:06:05 +0200 |
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On 2018-06-05, at 01:29, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > I thought that GNU projects are rather in the intersection of "free
> > software" (in FSF sense) and open-source. That sentence confuses me.
>
> Every GNU package satisfies the practical criterion of open source.
> However, "open source" also stands for ideas which disagree deeply
> with the ideas of the free software movement. (That was no accident:
> it was intended for that purpose.)
>
> Thus, simply describing a GNU package as "open source" is likely to
> give people a very clear, but incorrect, idea of what we're trying to
> do.
Thanks, as I have written in another message a minute ago, I get it now.
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Marcin Borkowski
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- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, (continued)
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, Richard Stallman, 2018/06/11
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/06/15
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/06/15
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/06/15
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, João Távora, 2018/06/15
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!, Richard Stallman, 2018/06/04
- Re: Three cheers for Eli!,
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