Z:gnu-www-ja-linus-islam--6dcd0a-One free software ideologue su/en

One free software ideologue summarized the current situation as that most people think of the relationship between the open source movement and the free software movement as like that between socialism and communism. Instead, he argues, we should see the open source movement as like boosters of movable type (as both spread a form of technological literacy.) The free software movement, in contrast, promotes the culture of public libraries, including with respect to software. Obviously public libraries benefited from movable type, but they are not limited to such productions, he added. How much publishing drives reading patterns or reading drives publishing patterns is an open debate, he concluded, although he suggested an historical review of that dynamic might be fruitful in suggesting new interactions between open source and free software, as competing views.