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

[Stuart A Yeates]

address@hidden wrote:

> Or not. Semantically speaking, the FSF has long pointed out that to a
> non-programmer, "Open Source" is every bit as meaningless, and even to
> a programmer the term is ambiguous. The source could be open, but you
> have no freedoms associated with it.

We have written a document that attempts to explain to a non-programmer 
what benefit they might gain from having access to the source code of 
the programs they use.

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/whysource.xml

Feedback is welcome.

cheers
stuart
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