On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:35 +0100, jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't agree :
free software and open source have different meaning to many people. If you look at the "open source" people at microsoft you will find 200+, but for "free software" only 23.
http://www.linkedin.com/search?proposalType=Y&newnessType=Y&search=&...
How is a linkedIn flawed statistic (there are non MS employees in your search why you imply they are all poeople that work or have worked at Microsoft) based on a search term mean anything ?
Now, opensource is a trademark and has a specific meaning, we want to show support of that.
False. Open Source is not a Trademark. And its meaning is also often not as clear as some people want you to believe, at least not in common people's minds.
Free software is also a well defined term and has a specific meaning, we want to show support of that.
We also want to show that we support free software more than open source if we have a choice, but we do not always have this choice.
can you give me examples of software that is Free Software but not Open Source or OS but not FS ?
Simo.