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RMS Speaks Against "Open"

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 18, 1998 @08:00AM from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

Andy Tai wrote in to tell us that the first major notable person to come out against the term "Open Source Software" is RMS. Read more here. He says that OSS may get businesses, but the concept is more clearly expressed through the term "Free". He's correct, but I'll take a little bit of ambiguity if it means more market share for Linux, Netscape, and other Open Source products.

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