| Kermit Snelson on Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:25:01 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] RE: <nettime>The Fading Altruism of Open Source |
Florian Cramer: > By all probability not, because Free Software and Open Source are > technically the same This is true, and the fact may be demonstrated by examining the two lists of licenses evaluated by the Open Source Initiative [1] and the Free Software Foundation [2] respectively. Of the dozens of software licenses that may be clearly identified as being on both lists, only the Apple Public Source License is considered "open source" by the OSI but "Non-Free" by the FSF. That one exception may, moreover, be due more to political than technical reasons. The FSF accepts the rest as "free software" licenses, although it nonetheless deprecates many of these as "GPL-Incompatible." Keith Hart: > It appears we cant even agree that one major difference between Free > Software and Open Source/Linux is the attitude to money and hence to > capitalism. The two camps have indeed taken very different rhetorical paths to what are demonstrably identical conclusions. I am less optimistic than Felix, who interprets this as evidence of a great movement that is capable of absorbing "very different, even contradictory ideas." I see it the other way around, namely as a single idea that has been absorbing different movements. There's no other explanation, I think, for the fact that we're hearing so much group singing lately between left-leaning communitarians and the libertarian right, and not only on the finer points of software license agreements. Keith's recent proposal in this thread to vacate the legal monopoly of central banks on the issue of legal tender certainly has the potential to throw yet another log on this cozy campfire. Kermit Snelson Notes: [1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html [2] http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold