[Gllug] BB4::excel

Jim Bailey jim at lateral.net
Mon May 27 16:14:48 UTC 2002


On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:27:55PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> On Monday, 27 May 2002, Jim Bailey wrote:
> >>Big Brother is rather nice, but it's not free software (or 'open
> >>source', if you must.)
> >If I have understood the home page correctly and got my own
> >understanding of 'Open Source' vs 'Free Software' it could be considered
> >the former and please Mr. Raymond
> 
> It would probably be a good idea to go and actually read the Open
> Source Definition, then.
>
You are right as always, though didn't we have a debate once about
making generalities? ;)

I guess it is like it sys on the label almost free, but from my quick
perusal of the opensource.org definition it fails on section 1 at least.
I will try not to make the same mistake again.

Peace Jim


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