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Re: [RFC] Restructuring of the Debian Project

Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:

> I will. Along with the standard. I'd prefer not to write free
> software for a standard that is itself not free.

From: Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@pathname.com>
> You are confusing "free" and "zero cost" with "free" and "liberated".

No, I don't think so.

> Some existing standards are free -- anyone can implement them.  POSIX
> is a good example.

Sure, anyone can implement them. However the certification process is
not liberated. In the case of most standards, if you don't get
certification to a standard, you can't legally use the name of the
standard in referring to your product, because the name of the standard
is a trademark. This may not be the case for POSIX (I was unable to
ascertain its trademark status) but is definitely the case for the
X/Open standards.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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