[Arm-netbook] need help! getting a bit overwhelmed on lists.oshwa.org

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Aug 24 01:39:29 BST 2016


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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater
<amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:46:33PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> http://lists.oshwa.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-August/001865.html
>>
>> very similarly minded people, unfortunately using the word "open
>> source" in reference to what are clearly libre principles.  if anyone
>> has time i'd really appreciate some help... but also i think people
>> here would genuinely appreciate the opportunity to debate, also
>> there's people there from "open ecology" and many other areas.
>>
>
> There's probably no help with them unless you can show them the useful
> FLOSS term, point out that the Open Source Definition derives from
> the Debian Free Software Guidelines (and has since been rather
> disclaimed by one of its authors).
>
> Libre guarantees slightly more than open source :)

 i know that, you know that.... but they've taken the libre definition
of the "four freedoms", transliterated it to a hardware world... and
called it OPEN HARDWARE (!!!)

 l.



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