[PythonCAD] advantages

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Apr 5 06:38:10 CEST 2012


Paulo Silva writes:
 > 
 > On 4/4/12, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
 > > Paulo Silva writes:
 > >  > more than open source, it's software libre (confusions between open
 > >  > source and software libre must be avoided, for example, Microsoft has
 > >  > open source licenses that they are not libre at all)
 > >
 > > What ARE you talking about?? If a license is open source, it's
 > > software livre.
 > 
 > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open
 > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Having spoken to him about this, I believe that Richard agrees that
open source and free software are the same *software*, but that the
political movements which use those terms have different goals.

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