[SGVLUG] Proprietary Binary Smackdown

John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Mon Sep 4 23:20:27 PDT 2006


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Christopher Smith <x at xman.org> writes:

> ... Binary only code goes against the principles of open source just
> like they go against the principles of free software. ...

Yep.  Thanks for clarifying.

The confusion comes in because historically ESR has been the author
and chief spokesman for open source, from which it could be argued
that any position that he takes would have be consistent with open
source, by definition.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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