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

[Sam Liddicott]

Stuart A Yeates wrote:

> 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


Maybe this sort of think should be re-cast for the audience and 
submitted to The Times and the FT during no-news season.

Sam