On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:58, Paul Gear wrote:
I couldn't agree more. Reliability and cost are factors, as is being able to fix the occasional bug myself, but for the most part the difference for me is in the morality that i promote by using free software.
# From a NZOSS get together I attended in Wellington yesterday in which we discussed this there was a suggestion of calling open source software "Freedom Software" to try and differentiate it from software that is simply free of cost. Open Source advocates are no less ideological - I made this clear at the AGM of the NZOSS. The NZOSS actually represents both the point of view of the Open Source and Free Software - since the basic principle - freedom - is a common concept. Ultimatly - as I found today in a presentation to the New Zeland Computer Society in Wellington about Open Source - there needs to be more education about what open source and free software is about. The ideology can't be ignored. Regards, Peter