[License-discuss] OSI definition

[Antoine Thomas]

Russel, I think that you should put this quotation in a Frame:

"The whole point behind Open Source is the same point behind Free
Software -- to transfer the power to discriminate between users to the
users themselves. It's the users who decide whether they want to use the
software or not. Open Source creates a free market in software. If you
don't want your software to be free for anyone to use, then you aren't
distributing Free Software as a concept, and aren't distributing Open
Source as a brand."

it is so powerful, it explains everything in a paragraph. May I ask the
right to use it on my blog?


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On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 16:36, Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> On 1/24/21 12:22 PM, Mat K. Witts wrote:
> > On 22/01/2021 00:29, McCoy Smith wrote:
> >> A corporation is a group of natural persons.
> > Not on it's own,
>
> Yes, on its own. It's a group. You intend to discriminate, we intend for
> you to not discriminate. Stop. End of sentence. EOT. Ctrl-D. ^D. You're
> done. Your ship has sunk, your bird has flown, your toast has popped,
> your souffle has fallen. Your license is not compatible with the Open
> Source Definition BY DESIGN. There's really no possible interpretation
> whereby your discrimination becomes one we would allow.
>
> We don't WANT to discriminate, even against "bad" people.
>
> You DO want to discriminate.
>
> There is no meeting of the minds.
>
> The whole point behind Open Source is the same point behind Free
> Software -- to transfer the power to discriminate between users to the
> users themselves. It's the users who decide whether they want to use the
> software or not. Open Source creates a free market in software. If you
> don't want your software to be free for anyone to use, then you aren't
> distributing Free Software as a concept, and aren't distributing Open
> Source as a brand.
>
>
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