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		BlueTemplar on Nov 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This Stallman is about Free/Libre Software. Eric S. Raymond is about Open Source. There are somewhat subtle, but very important differences between their philosophies.

eru on Nov 9, 2020 [–]

And not even all Free Software is the same.

Eg the Linux kernel deliberately uses GPL 2, and that community has rejected GPL 3.

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