[CoLoCo] RMS interview.

[Jim Hutchinson]

On 12/20/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> > ...I don't really see how open source and free are
> > not synonymous.
>
> It's the four freedoms:
>         0. Use
>         1. Study
>         2. Redistribute
>         3. Modify
>
> "Open Source" software only guarantees freedom 1.  Not any of the other
> three.  And not really even 1.  Read on...
>

I thought open source guaranteed all of those. I guess I've just
considered OS synonymous with the GPL - i.e. if it's not GPL it's not
open source. I never thought BSD, for example, was open source since a
company, like Apple, can make a closed OS with it. If that is what RMS
is arguing then I agree. So is he more open to the term Free and Open
Source? I think the term free software is confusing since it's too
much like freeware. I proposed the term "freedomware" in a post a
while back.

-jim
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