[EuroPython] government money, socialism et al.

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:32:25 +0100


Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> 
> > OSI compliant have the "free" built-in... at least as far as money
> > is concerned. What definition of "free" do they have in mind ?
> 
> I suppose it is free as in "Not to being tied with a particular vendor or
> supplier and ask anyone to modify it if you happen to need to".

And that's just what the term "Open Source" establishes:

	http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html

Looks like some talk about this would be worth having :-) 

[they even have translations of the OSI definition in all EU 
languages, now that should convince them it's a good thing ;-)]

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