[License-discuss] OSI definition

[Russell Nelson]

Feel free!

On 1/25/21 10:55 AM, Antoine Thomas via License-discuss wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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