Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video]
by syshum on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:22AM
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>But aren't you restricting freedom when you would keep a creator from sharing his software under his own terms?
That is the Open Source vs Free Software debate in alot of ways
Stallman and the Free Software movement is about the USERS freedom, ensuring that the END USER of software retains the rights to modify, use, and examine the software they use
Where Open Source is mainly focused on the DEVELOPER of the software, most Open Source advocates are developers that want to have their libraries, dev tools, frameworks, languages, compilers, etc all open so they can create closed software for end users, and use code interoperably between projects with out having to worry about Licensing, this is why Open Source favors MIT, BSD, and other non-copy left licenses, where Free Software is GPL
Also you might want to watch the newer interview between Byran Lunduke and Richard Stallman
That is the Open Source vs Free Software debate in alot of ways
Stallman and the Free Software movement is about the USERS freedom, ensuring that the END USER of software retains the rights to modify, use, and examine the software they use
Where Open Source is mainly focused on the DEVELOPER of the software, most Open Source advocates are developers that want to have their libraries, dev tools, frameworks, languages, compilers, etc all open so they can create closed software for end users, and use code interoperably between projects with out having to worry about Licensing, this is why Open Source favors MIT, BSD, and other non-copy left licenses, where Free Software is GPL
Also you might want to watch the newer interview between Byran Lunduke and Richard Stallman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0y0oXU8YNk