Raymond and Perens respond to SCO [LWN.net]

Raymond and Perens respond to SCO

Posted Sep 10, 2003 17:38 UTC (Wed) by toon (guest, #511)
In reply to: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO by sphealey
Parent article: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO

> Who exactly appointed or elected Eric Raymond as the spokesman
> for the "open source community" ?

Holy smoke, Batman ! ESR *defined* the open source community, by
using the term "open source" for the first time to mean "code that
you can obtain the source for (and redistribute)".

I am not a member of that community (I'm a Free Software Developer),
but it's quite clear that if ESR is attacked in his capacity of
President of the OSI, he *has* to "speak for his community".

Toon Moene (current GNU Fortran maintainer).

Excellent job, BTW, that reply to the SCO Open Letter.

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Raymond and Perens respond to SCO

Posted Sep 10, 2003 23:09 UTC (Wed) by zen (guest, #222) [Link]

Perhaps remember that we are more powerful as a community to the extent we consider ourselves a community and can cooperate on issues as a community, rather than separate factions. In this vein, I consider us all part of one community. In deference to this community's founding nearly two decades ago, I name it the free software community. And within _our_ community is are the Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement.

Yet, as is so aptly demonstrated with ESR and BP's joint response to SCO, we _are_ a single community. We do have largely similar goals. We are united in our distaste, distrust and outright disgust at the kind of activities seen by SCO.

I consider myself a part of our whole community. I align myself with the Free Software Movement. I respect those who choose to align with the Open Source Movement.

This comment is an essentially semantic issue as is hopefully obvious. I otherwise wholeheartedly agree with your response. Add my vocal support for the work ESR and BP have done so far!

Regards
Zen