Comment Free Software without saying Free Software (Score 3, Insightful) 68
I think our message, at its root, has to be around open source.
I love seeing how Miller then proceeds to engage in all kinds of semantic acrobatics to talk about software freedom while trying to avoid the term "free software". People think RMS/FSF may be fanatics but here we have another case, someone who fanatically avoids using the best phrase/term for what he's trying to convey. I get it, you try to disassociate with FSF guys, but let's be honest. The benefit Miller talks about does not come from having some "source code available" but from from the four basic freedoms of free software.
(and again, how do we avoid the "glazed looks" when you try to explain the concept of "source (and object) code" to the average person? Just use the free software phrase, no one is going to sue you for that!)