[pp.int.general] Spanish elections

[Markus Drenger]

Hi Richard,

we promote Free Software, but there are still people out there calling
their OS Linux and cannot tell the difference between free and open.
Thank you for your mails, in the beginning i did not distinguish between
free software and open software, because i thought of open software like
"gpl-licensed" or apache etc.

our federal manifesto it says Free Software: ;)
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Parteiprogramm#Freie_Software

Greetings
Markus

Am 24.05.11 01:40, schrieb Richard Stallman:
>     In Germany, you can try to persuade the organizations that local council=20
>     supervenes to use open software,
>
> "Open software" means components that you can mix and match.
> The term was used a lot 20 years ago by AT&T's Unix rivals,
> but is not used much any more.
>
> If what you mean is free software, why not call it "freie Software" in
> Germany, and "software libre" in Spain?  "Open" is just a way of
> not talking about freedom, and why would a Pirate Party want to do that?
>
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