[Gllug] Discussion: Is Enterprise Linux a lock-in

[Tethys]

Bruce Richardson writes:

>> Rubbish. OSI was created purely to rebrand Free Software to make it more
>> appealing to corporate types.
>
>And the public disagreements that various open source proponents have
>had with RMS, both before and after, were just to justify this move?

No. I'm not arguing that there aren't differences (initially, I thought
they were purely in RMS's head, but I later saw ESR publically admit
that he didn't care for anything but the pragmatic reasons for using
free software). But that wasn't the reason for the inception of the OSI.

Tet
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