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

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-10-05 10:58:21 +0100 address@hidden wrote:

> And in the context that MJR was discussing (a discussion about 
> democracy
> and other ethical and political questions), the term "Free Software"
> is *far* more appropriate.

Also, it's the term used by the referenced web sites, along with its 
friend "free media". I'm pretty surprised that a Solidarity Village 
supporter changed it to the bigCorp-friendly marketing term, that's 
all.

Free software did have a marketing programme once... called open 
source. Unfortunately, the trademark attempt is dead and it seems that 
term is at least as ambiguous - it even has undesirable connotations 
from espionage, apparently! When that horse should have been given a 
decent burial and its riders invited to transfer, some people kept 
flogging it, for diverse reasons.

Someone tried to steal our revolution. Now we're stealing it back.

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