Am Montag, dem 09. Mar 2009 schrieb David Gerard:
2009/3/9 Noah Slater nslater@tumbolia.org:
Unfortunately, where I would normally agree here, the FSF's definition of software freedom is the canonical one. Debian has it's DFSG, which is fine. The OSI has it's own too, which is great. But it is perfectly reasonable for someone with an FSF hat on to disagree that this is free software.
Oh yes, advocacy is perfectly understandable. However, confusing a strongly held opinion with an objective fact is muddled thinking, e.g. GNU/Linux versus Linux - the former is an opinion that FSF advocates like to state as a fact, the latter is what the rest of the world calls it in English.
(I started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy and helped get it to Wikipedia featured status.)
Let's stop bickering. The best article about the naming controversy ist still this one: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_M_Stallman_Vs._Linus_Torvalds ;-)