<div dir="ltr"><div>Obviously, the OKF is going to take the view that "Open" is term here. OKF even creates the Open Definition which is based on the Open Source definition from OSI.<br><br></div><div>I personally go with FLO to combine these terms. Both Free and Open are easy to be unclear what it really means, but in the context of the OKF, everyone is going to easily get that <i>they</i> mean Open per their own definition.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">--<br>Aaron Wolf<br><a href="http://wolftune.com/" target="_blank">wolftune.com</a></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Gene Shackman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eval_gene@yahoo.com" target="_blank">eval_gene@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If you want to sell this to the public, you need a better term than "free" (and not "libre"). Because people will think free means free to use. "Free and open" might do it. Most people probably have some vague idea what open means. Or "free and open source".<br>
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 10:28 AM PST William Waites wrote:<br>
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>Free Software has a well accepted definition:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a><br>
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