[OT] What is Open Source? (was Re: ANN: Twisted 0.16.0...)

[Brad Bollenbach]

In article <slrnabeqkg.mfc.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com>, Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> Brad Bollenbach <bbollenbach at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>This is a semantic debate. I know that Stallman chose the term "Free
>>Software" because he felt it was the best (and most concise) way to
>>express what he was thinking of.
> 
> That's right.  A large portion of OSS is FS.  But another large 
> portion is  not.  FS is a proper subset of OSS.

Fine, I guess I'll have to cite Stallman directly to back up what I
said. :) From http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html#OpenSource:

<begin gnu>
Open Source software
====================

 The term ``open source'' software is used by some people to mean more
 or less the same thing as free software. We prefer the term ``free
 software''; follow that link to see the reasons.
<end gnu>


--
Brad