[plug] Linux seminar at ECU.

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> > I'd avoid the term "free software" in favour of ESRs "open
> > source". For any Windoze user, "freeware" is associated with all
> > those crappy binary-only utilities, including shareware, nagware
> > etc. The 
> term seems to
> > have caught on, and is easier than talking beer vs. speech.
> 
> I strongly disagree.  If you're going to educate people then you
> may as well do it properly.  After all, we're not talking about
> someone reading the the term on a headline somewhere and getting
> the wrong idea, we're talking about a seminar designed to give
> people an accurate
> understanding of the terms and concepts.  Anyway, knowing Ollie I'm
> sure his explanation will be excellent. :-)

I agree.  Most of you would have seen
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.

A reminder that for November (putting on my hat as President of the
WA Society for Computers and the Law Inc) I'm organising a seminar on
free software licences, including the vexed issue of "are they
enforceable"?.  Will have one or more speakers from this list plus an
IP lawyer.
 
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