Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: ECF/ESF

[Robin Green]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:48:48PM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2004, at 11:27, MJ Ray wrote:
> 
> >It irritates me when supposedly freedom-minded people use the failed 
> >US trademark term "Open Source" instead of "free software", "free 
> >media" or similar terms. Are they scared to speak about freedom?
> 
> No, I suspect they just have a better grasp of social interaction. 
> "Open Source", like it or loath it, is pretty much in the public domain 
> and has 'recognition'. If you talk about "free software" or worse, 
> "software libre", most people in the general public will have little 
> idea of what you're talking about and will pigeon-hole you as a 
> radical/wonk.

Exactly right.
-- 
Robin

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