Salim Badakhchani | Certified I.T. professional, with over 20 years of experience, specialising in the banking and telecommunications industry. Passionate supporter of Community Software developed under Free and Open Source (FOSS) licenses and an early adopter and advocate of those technologies. Strong all rounder with broad industry experience spanning development and operations. Expert in defining process, documenting work flow, identifying best practice and developing tooling for automation.
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I doubt it and if that is the case I don't think the impact is critical. I hope that when people talk about community software it will be understood that they are referring to FOSS especially if they are talking about community in another language. The context for this conversation in international markets and I think that is being missed here but that does not surprise me either. We have to think international if we are to go forward.
Thanks for the feedback, its much appreciated. The reason the word community is getting traction is two fold. Its commonly used in industry (Red Hat Community, TYPO3 community, Apache Community etc) and that is translates better that words like "Free" and "Open". Community Software is becoming the international business face of FOSS and that's great news for those of us who care about adoption. We need the FSF asn Free Software to communicate about the philosophy of what we do and we need The OSI and Open Source to espouse the superiority of technology that can be freely collaborated on. Community Software, given the way its forming, is talking about the value of the software. Its a language that business understands...no value no sale. We need to all these aspects of our community working together to if we are going to drive out inferior propitiatory software...especially in international markets.