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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Thanks for the feedback Jim and your not the only person to have said this but I hazard a guess your technical person. Apologies if I'm wrong but most of the people who have told us that its just a matter of eduction have been people who live, east and breath FOSS. While I agree that education is key to understanding a concept how we refer to that concept does make its understanding easier. Try this little experiment out on none technical people. Simply ask them which term do you think is the least ambiguous when talking about software...open, free or community. I would be keen to hear your result :)
Interesting. I have been told that its not a good term to use in Swedish with respect to software. I would guess its problematic in other languages too.