Questions tagged [philosophy]

In the answers to this question it was shown, that a few licenses exist, that are only open source but not free software or the other way round. Still, most licenses are both or neither, so the overlap is very big. But the communities around open…

Last year, I participated in a Birds of a Feather panel discussion at Devoxx. During this panel discussion, David Blevins explained: "We have this fairytale idea that open source is an infinite resource, but it's not," Blevins said. An approach…

Free/Libre GNU/Linux distributions always talk about how to avoid non-free binary blobs when using Wi-Fi cards which pretty much means using only Atheros chipsets. What about other devices like hard drives, wired Ethernet cards, DVD ROMs.. Don't…