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cwp on June 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eric Raymond: Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and wh...

Open source isn't a compromise between free software and proprietary software. It's a different philosophical basis for advocating the same practices.

dspeyer on June 13, 2012 [–]

The open source movement isn't. The "proprietary software is ok so long as not much is at stake and you weren't likely to tinker with it anyway" idea is.

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