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Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware? |
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Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:19:48 -0500 |
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> The error in your GNU article is the claim that "Visual Studio Code"
> is open source because the source code is available under a free
> license.
> Neither is true.
> "Visual Studio Code" contains code which "Code - OSS" doesn't, and
> such code isn't released.
Thanks. Now I can fix the page.
It seems that none of these versions of Code - OSS is an example of
the point that paragraph makes. So I need to delete the point about
Visual Studio Code entirely. I did that.
It would be nice to have another example to cite here, but I don't
know of one.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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