Linux Foundation 2021 annual report

Posted Dec 13, 2021 18:52 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Linux Foundation 2021 annual report by anselm
Parent article: Linux Foundation 2021 annual report

You are barking on the wrong tree. Free Software difference is not about licenses. It's about the ideology (heck, they, themselves, explain difference better than me). Whileas free software guys think about how to make sure user would get less freedom to tinker with the device they own open source guys go and create things which people, then, actually use (because they can buy or download them).

For open source guy the decision about whether to release something as open source or proprietary is question of practicality and usability but for free software simple move from AOSP to Google Play services is something they be ready to lynch the offender.

But yeah, after open source guys organize everything, talk to the companies which make proprietary software and hardware and produce things… free software guys often start talking about how open source licenses and free software licenses are one and the same and how that means free software and open source software is the same and how that means open source guys should stop cooperating with everyone else and start pushing for the world without non-free software.

Some free software guys are sane and understand that last highlighted “that” is not follow-up for anything else (only a desire of free software movement), some (these are the ones I call “free software zealots”) insist that it's “natural” and that “opens source guys” are just “simply uneducated”.