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===Redirect to Alternative terms of free software===

Personally, I think Free Software and Open Source are very different ideas (although the same software) - e.g. the history section would be significantly different - so I think they both deserve their own articles. However, this article is not a significant movement or way of thinking about things, it just tries to group the two together. Therefore, I would say redirect this article to [[Alternative_terms_for_free_software#FLOSS]]. What do you think? --[[User:bjwebb|Bjw]][[User:Bjwebb/Esperanza|<fontspan colorstyle="color:green;">e</fontspan>]][[User:Bjwebb|bb]] <small>([[User talk:Bjwebb|talk]])</small> 16:11, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

*'''support''' I support the proposed redirect. It would reduce duplication of material in Wikipedia. --[[User:Gronky|Gronky]] ([[User talk:Gronky|talk]]) 18:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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::::::Not agreed. A merger of the articles would result in conceptual incoherence given the differences in purposes, philosophy, method and consequences between the Free Software Movement and Open Source. To conflate the essential distinctions by merging the articles would be misleading, and entirely unhelpful to serious thinking about this matter. [[User:Ammonius.Grammaticus|Ammonius.Grammaticus]] ([[User talk:Ammonius.Grammaticus|talk]]) 14:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

::::::I disagree strongly. Each is, by far, large enough to warrants it's own articles. In fact, various aspects of each is already is discussed in depths, effectively, and separately on dozens of articles! Merging would be, at best, foolish and awkward. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#C40099;">m</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:#600099;">a</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:#2D0399;">k</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:#362365;">o</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#000000;">๛</fontspan>]]</b> 16:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

::::::Not agreed. It is well established that the software freedom movement and the open source movement are separate in their goals and philosophies, but share similar methodologies for achieving and realising them, and people involved in each movement typically co-operate on writing software despite their motivational differences. I'm surprised that, as a long time Free Software Foundation staffer in the 1980s and early 1990s, Len isn't aware of this. [[User:Abattis|Abattis]] ([[User talk:Abattis|talk]]) 02:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)