Re: [Sheflug] Re: RMS Talk

["Perry Ismangil" <nospam [at] acm.org>]

On 27 Oct 00, at 22:40, the honourable Richard wrote this about [Sheflug] Re:  RMS Talk:

> I have noticed that there are times when the Open Source people were
> more acceptable to business users.  Although, in a situation where the FSF
> is now the steward of the copyrights for the Linux S/390 platform it could
> well be the case that things will change.

Yes, I thought IBM was open source rather than free software... 
Seeing IBM acknowledge FSF is quite an achievement.

> complete project could be assembled and made to work without too much
> formality does appeal to me.

Which brings me to another observation: While RMS is devoted to the 
idea of free software, he is not so keen on 'open development': "... 
after the next release of Emacs we will consider using open 
development model... " which implies that Emacs current is using a 
closed development model.


Best regards,

Perry Ismangil

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