Mandriva to ship Skype

Mandriva to ship Skype

Posted Dec 21, 2005 20:13 UTC (Wed) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
In reply to: Mandriva to ship Skype by xav
Parent article: Mandriva to ship Skype

I don't need a lecture about free software thank you but since you bring it up, "open" ("open source") and "gratis" are both anathema to a software-libre person, I don't think you'll find anyone who's principals prevent them from running closed-source software but who will run open-source, non-free software. Skype is quite obviously not "open" in a source code sense so it should have been clear that I wasn't using the word in that sense. Also, reading Duncan's post you would see that the original word was "accessible", unfortunately I accidentally replaced it with a synonym but by reading my examples (open shops, open swimming pools) that I was not talking about source code availablility or modification.

So, the original poster and the press release used the words "accessible to everyone" and it is. That some people choose not to access it does not make it inaccessible to them.

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