Re: [Dotgnu-sc] RE: .Net replacement

[Rhys Weatherley]

"Cline, Dana (Dana)" wrote:
> 
> Norbert,
> 
> >>for now I
> believe it'd be best for you to speak with these three members
> 
> Thanks for the referral! Since they're all copied on this message,
> hopefully one of them will get back to me... I also got a response
> from a developer named Gopal with some information.

Hi Dana.  I'm Rhys Weatherley, one of the members that Norbert
referred to, and the author of Portable.NET.  Please feel free
to ask me anything about the project.

> >>By the way, please make sure that you refer to our work as "Free
> Software", not "open-source".
> 
> Is anyone willing to define the difference between the two for me?
> Warning: this will probably be quoted in the article...

The best reference is from the Free Software Foundation, which
also contains links to other clarifying documents:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html

Cheers,

Rhys.