Define Free [was Concerns: CC-BY and Debian]

Robin Millette millette at waglo.com
Fri Mar 11 07:00:33 EST 2005


Branko Collin wrote:

> Perhaps you should use another term, because the words "free" and 
> "freedom" may be too confusing. I do not think I have ever seen two 
> people agree on a definition of these words.

I found this article very interesting:
Free software and open source: The freedom debate and its consequences 
by Mathias Klang.

“Without arriving at particular conclusions the posts included views in 
part on the lack of user awareness on what was property within the 
computer, on the difference between free, gratis, and libre in different 
languages and cultures and the need for both a common terminology and 
infrastructure. This paper is not an attempt to resolve these issues but 
to bring these questions to the attention of a wider audience in the 
hope that the discussion will continue.”

First Monday, volume 10, number 3 (March 2005),
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/klang/

I had to mention here too (avec une traduction du paragraphe ci-haut):
http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/2005/03/10/free-software-and-open-source-the-freedom-debate-and-its-consequences/

-- 
Robin Millette, aka oqp http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/
http://www.cogitateurs-agitateurs.org/ - Cogitateurs Agitateurs




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