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Re: Virtually Zero-Overhead Object Management is neither free software n


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Subject: Re: Virtually Zero-Overhead Object Management is neither free software nor open source software
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:47:09 -0700
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J de Boyne Pollard scrisse:

[...]

> AW> My assumption was that when Chris said "charge a
> AW> fee for a commerical product" he meant a CLOSED
> AW> SOURCE product, or at least one that wasn't itself GPL.
>
> That assumption, that "commercial" and "closed source" are synonyms,
> is _exactly_ the error that the GPL FGA is combatting.

Not very well it would seem! Obviously its attempts to reclaim
the pejoratives "open source" and "free software" have failed.
It could be time to change tactic and try a euphemistic locution
(c.f. differently abled).

RF



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