Software Freedom Business Initiative
Libervis has a great article that proposes a “Free Software Business Initiative” as a counterpart to the Open Source Initiative, since making free software business-facing was the original admirable goal of the OSI.
I would suggest the term “Software Freedom Business Initiative” instead to avoid the “gratis” ambiguity problem that was also stated as an initiating problem by the OSI, and this phrasing has been championed by the Software Freedom Law Center - softwarefreedom.org - although it was coined by Len Tower on the free software business mailing list the day after the term “open source” was published, in 1998.
The Software Freedom Business Initiative by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
August 10, 2007 |
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