open source free software

Free Software and Open Source

Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software.

The definitions of both are functionally identical, which is what is important of course.

http://opensource.org/docs/osd

I prefer combining the terms open source free software because i find it descriptive altogether even if it is technically/literally redundant.

An impressive crew in the DrupalChix introductions.

Much more recent notes

http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Womenscaucus/resources

http://www.blogher.com/where-are-all-women-question-time-open-source

Agaric wants open source integration: today's itch, list current Songbird's current mp3 player playlist on Drupal site.

Songbird takes plugins. Drupal takes modules. Everything is open source free software. All we need is a little time and knowledge!

Resolution

After a long delay because my poor abused MacBook didn't get restarted for a few months, Mac OS X managed to update iTunes. And the new version, 8, is terrible. There are ugly little arrows everywhere that just send you to the iTunes store for songs you already have.

I don't need a whole separate box to tell me what's playing that hides a third of my playlists. And I certainly don't need an entire idiot sidebar that needs an account at Apple's iTunes store to show it's genius.