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Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation on Software Freedom


Microsoft’s Potemkin Village CodePlex Foundation has an interesting Venn diagram up:

But I thought Free Software == Communism?

But I thought Free Software == Communism?

This entry was posted on July 13, 2010, 8:00 am and is filed under Free Software, Linux, Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. #1 by saulgoode on July 13, 2010 - 10:00 am

    From the Codeplex blog:
    “Having a debate about software freedom versus open source software (and then debating who is more free or more open) suffers the same problems and tensions as arguing that free speech is better than free markets or that democracy is more important than capitalism. They are different ideas.”

    They are not different ideas. Certainly not according to the co-creator of Open Source (“Most hackers know that Free Software and Open Source are just two words for the same thing.“).

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