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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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An Aside About Terminology

As you participate in free and open source software projects, you’ll find that people sometimes are a bit sensitive about the terminology used to refer to their movement of choice. While from a contribution point of view, there isn’t much effective difference between free or open source projects, from a philosophical point of view, there is. The Freedoms guaranteed by free software form a fundamental belief system for many free software advocates. Therefore, some of them become sensitive to free software projects being referred to as “open source.” To them, doing so dilutes the emphasis on Freedom embodied in the movement and removes the opportunity to teach new people about the freedoms and their moral importance. ...

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