Re: Boy Scout Open Source

["Matt Shields-4" <user=23@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:50:58 -0400 
> MBR <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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> > In spite of this having gotten way off topic because of the Boy Scouts' 
> > Freedom of Association case, I think there's a different issue here that 
> > _is_ highly relevant to BLU (and also FSF for that matter).  I just 
> > looked closely at their answer to the question "What is Open Source 
> > Software?" 
> 
> I would agree. however, a possible future meeting topic this brings to 
> mind is a discussion about what OSS is, what it means to the end users, 
> both personal desktop users but also to organizations that run servers. 
> And, on top of this is how does a business based on OSS make money. I 
> tend to be amused to see on the OpenOffice.org users list that a number 
> of people BUY OO.o for download, then complain the download stops and 
> they can't recover. Part of my intent is to try to broaden our topics 
> to be more inclusive, but also I think there are also some 
> misconceptions as to what OSS is. 
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