
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 95
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 235
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 95
Source: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93
1990s, Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source" (1998)
Context: While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.
In 1998, some of the people in the free software community began using the term "open source software" instead of "free software" to describe what they do. The term "open source" quickly became associated with a different approach, a different philosophy, different values, and even a different criterion for which licenses are acceptable. The Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are today separate movements with different views and goals, although we can and do work together on some practical projects.
The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement." For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.
“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”
Source: Little Children
Source: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 8
Source: The Critical Legal Studies Movementː Another Time, A Greater Task (2015), p. 15
Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 19
there are always sufficiently gullible patients
Foreword to Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
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