Open Source?
Yeay. New category (again??).
Spotted from an article from Kompas which I retrieved from its website.
Bermunculannya situs penyedia layanan blog gratis (open source) semacam Blogspot, youTube, Myspace, Livejournal, serta Friendster kian memanjakan pengguna.
Translation : The appearance of the websites which provide free (open source) blogging service like blogspot, youtube, myspace, livejournal, and friendster makes users more convenient.
Those who know may have known by now.
Okay. Spotted! (it’s like a tagline or something)
free (open source)
gratis (open source)
Hello??? Free isn’t the same with open source! It’s true that open source project is free. But different “free”. As quoted in GNU, it’s free as in free speech, not as in free beer! So, the free blogging platforms mentioned (hey, YouTube isn’t blogging platform is it?), is obviously not open source!
Open source refers to the freedom to access the source code of the program (actually it’s more oftenly used in software). Plus, you can modify it and distribute it, for free.
See the difference? More information can be seen here.
Furthermore, referring a website as an open source website can be
inaccurate. (I’m not really sure about this though. Can someone please
enlighten me?)
OMG. It’s Kompas! The biggest and the most influential newspaper in Indonesia! The paper that my Indonesian Language teacher referred to as the best example of using language rightly and correctly!
Tsk. I wonder what happened in Kompas. Publishing an article like this will surely cause Indonesia-wide misunderstanding. Now blessed be you who read that article and now read my blog post. Be alerted!
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DeviLucious
on January 8th, 2007
huehue… totally agree with you. it’s free service(s) but not an open source!
and the placement of “YouTube” among the rest of blog-sites signify the writer didn’t do decent research (or maybe didnt do ANY research) at all lolz =P
^sylv^
ya that’s why.. I can’t accept the fact that they’re doing it on Kompas! I mean, I believe in Kompas all my life about the right spelling or grammar about Indonesian language but this stuff just turned me off.
imambenjol
on January 9th, 2007
kalo free software disamain sama freeware masi bisa ditolerir dikit soalnya rada mirip2, tapi kalo open source disamain sama gratis, huhuhuhuhu, RMS bisa ngamuk tuh.
^sylv^
ya makanya. coba bayangin yang pada ga ngerti. bayangin dah ada berapa orang yang ketipu gara2 si wartawan kompas dodol itu. RMS apa yah? Republik Maluku Selatan? :p
imambenjol
on January 9th, 2007
RMS : http://www.stallman.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
soal pemilihan kata, RMS tuh sensitif banget. free software dibilang open source aja bisa ngomel, GNU/Linux dibilang Linux ngomel juga.
^sylv^
oh yang bikin GNU toh.. eh free software bukannya mank open source? Maksudnya klo freeware dibilang open source kali? Freeware ma open source emang beda.. Lumayan jauh pula. Hehe.
imambenjol
on January 10th, 2007
The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.” For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html