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Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware?
Date: 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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