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1. Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 14:12:02 JST Gadfly (-booq-)

   The frustrating things about how "ACTUALLY IT'S 'FREE SOFTWARE' NOT 'OPEN SOURCE' " has become synecdoche for a certain type of annoying programmer type is that, like,,

   it IS a significant difference, sometimes! It IS often deliberately obscured how the main point of the movement was and should be Ensuring Freedoms, not just the side-point of "seeing the source code".
   And the fact that the term Open Source was specifically created for businesses/marketing is... notable.

   • halcy​:icosahedron: repeated this.
   • halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 19:46:09 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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     @gaditb rms is right about a lot of things the problem is that also, and on everything else, he’s rms