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here's the link

Posted Jan 26, 2010 1:26 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: here's the link by coriordan
Parent article: Red Hat launches opensource.com

Pragmatism is a philosophy, you know. Philosophy is so deeply embedded into
everything we do, think, and say that it is essentially impossible to avoid.
People do philosophy all the time without any particular awareness that is
what they are engaging in.

"Open Source" is based on the philosophy that royalty free, open, modifiable,
and redistributable source code is better for all concerned - as in the world
will be a better place to one degree or another if we avoid the most
pernicious forms of proprietary software and vendor lock-in, to the degree
and at the rate such a transition is economically and pragmatically feasible.

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here's the link

Posted Jan 26, 2010 1:32 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

> "Open Source" is based on the philosophy that royalty free, open,
> modifiable, and redistributable source code is better for all concerned

I disagree. That's (presumably) your philosophy, and mine, and the philosophy shared by many people include those who talk about "open source", but we didn't get this idea from OSI or the OSD. As I mention in my comment below, these came from the free software movement and the hacker community. This philosophy *survived* open source, rather than coming from it.