Comments on: Is “OpenSource-isation by Corporation” the Next Big Threat? http://techrights.org/2008/04/07/open-source-corp-hijack/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: akf http://techrights.org/2008/04/07/open-source-corp-hijack/comment-page-1/#comment-7660 akf Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:18:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/07/open-source-corp-hijack/#comment-7660 The term Open Source has always been a distraction of Free Software. In the beginning they said, it was a two step plan: first keep quiet about freedom to get companies hooked and in the second step tell them, what it is really about. Maybe it would have been a good plan. But the second step never came, and I have my doubts today, whether it was really planned. So if the “brand” OpenSource goes down the drain, I won't shed a tear. I use “Free Software”. When it becomes more clear, that it is not the same, the better it is for Free Software. (That's also the reason, why I don't support Perens) The term Open Source has always been a distraction of Free Software. In the beginning they said, it was a two step plan: first keep quiet about freedom to get companies hooked and in the second step tell them, what it is really about.

Maybe it would have been a good plan. But the second step never came, and I have my doubts today, whether it was really planned.

So if the “brand” OpenSource goes down the drain, I won’t shed a tear. I use “Free Software”. When it becomes more clear, that it is not the same, the better it is for Free Software.
(That’s also the reason, why I don’t support Perens)

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