Mozilla Europe's founder, Tristan Nitot, has no problem with free software. Indeed, his organization has created some of the best of it. But when software technologies like Adobe Systems' Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight are free but proprietary, they can create all sorts of problems. "Free" without "open" can become a one-way ticket to technology prison.
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can.axis
17 weeks 4 days 5 hours 34 min ago
Mozilla should speak out against the open-but-proprietary Web
Mozilla should speak out against the open-but-proprietary Web and embrace the Free Software Movement !
The Flash specifications are open but their platform remains proprietary.
To quote Matt Asay:-) "There's one very easy way to resolve the tension: FREE SOFTWARE. Open standards are a nice start, but they provide no way to guarantee software freedom. Only Free Software leaves the gate free to swing both in and out of a technology."