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Aaron

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More options 9 Apr, 20:37

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From: Aaron <atimbr...@aol.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:37:37 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Wed 9 Apr 2008 20:37

Subject: Re: Castle What?

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On 9 Apr, 16:47, Rob Kendrick <n...@rjek.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:45:25 -0700, Aaron wrote:
> > It's only too overloaded because people like yourself and Paul Vigay use
> > the term "open source" instead of the correct term(s).

> And I'm sure you speak from a position of extensive experience and
> participation in open source and free software communities, having
> contributed hundreds of hours of your own time and thousands of lines of
> code to them. Your CV must be positively over-flowing with examples of
> your organisation, efforts and management of such communities to be able
> to pontificate so authoritatively.

Actually I have spent hundreds of hours on "free" software and
contributed thousands of lines of code :-)

but not in the last few years:-(

Despite spending time doing this I still managed to read
the relevant documents. I also studied contract law and
licencing agreements as part of my degree. I also
learnt to read :-)

> Parts of CTL's RISC OS source code have been made available to anyone to
> view, fork and modify as they so wish. They're just not free to do the
> things that free software typically allows.

Making something available does not make it open
source - simple fact.

> The confusion people have who are new to this kind of thing are the
> motivating factor for organisations like Debian having their own very
> carefully worded descriptions of free software (which incidentally, the
> ROOL licence fails miserably), and is a huge contributing factor to the
> FUD surrounding free and open source software.

Well you aren't new to this, so that doesn't explain
your confusion. The situation remains the same. Some
parts of the sources to RISC OS 5 are available under
a shared source, not open source.

Your Acorn User 1992 level comprehension doesn't alter
the facts one jot. You have freely admited in the past
that you don't read things, this appears to be yet another
case :-(

Aaron

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