Editing Principled positions and FLOSS
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Those of us in the free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) community know the routine by now. Despite the fact that "free software" and "open source" refer to the same software and the same communities, supporters of "free software" like the [http://www.fsf.org FSF] would have us advocate for FLOSS by talking about users' rights to [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html use, modify, share, and cooperate]; open source supporters like the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative] would have us advocate for software by talking about how securing these rights produces software with "better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility [and] lower cost." | Those of us in the free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) community know the routine by now. Despite the fact that "free software" and "open source" refer to the same software and the same communities, supporters of "free software" like the [http://www.fsf.org FSF] would have us advocate for FLOSS by talking about users' rights to [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html use, modify, share, and cooperate]; open source supporters like the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative] would have us advocate for software by talking about how securing these rights produces software with "better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility [and] lower cost." | ||