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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> writes:

    Laura> People here seem to be thinking that the GPL is there to
    Laura> protect creators rights to their software.

I'm pretty sure that that is what rms has in mind, as long as both
"creators" and "software" are inclusive collective nouns.

The consumer protection argument is the OSI line (a special case
thereof), and rms don't have much truck with anything so economical
and relativist.

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