:57:00
He was uh.. He was an employee of VA at the time
:57:04
Well, we came up with the concept of Open Source,
:57:08
we called Linus in fact and asked Linus if he liked it.
:57:12
He was interested, He liked it.
:57:15
Eventually we came up with something that replaced "Free Software".
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That was the beginning of Open Source.
:57:20
[ How did you chose words "Open Source"? ]
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You know, I think Christine Peterson was
the person who really came up with the idea.
:57:29
Uh, we wanted, again, the idea
that the source code was out there and it was open.
:57:37
There weren't many choices.
:57:41
Well, since the fist three recipients have
spoken for the Open Source movement,
:57:47
I think I should speak about
the Free Software movement.
:57:52
The Open Source movement,
focuses on practical advantages
:57:56
that you can get by having a community of users
:57:59
who can cooperate on interchanging and improving software.
:58:04
I agree completely with the points they make about that.
:58:08
The reason why my views are different,
while I am in the Free Software movement
:58:14
rather than the Open Source movement,
:58:16
is that I believe there's something
more important at stake.
:58:20
That freedom to cooperate with other people,
freedom to have a community...
:58:26
is important for our quality of life.
:58:29
It's important for having a good society
that we can live in.
:58:34
And that that is in my view, even more important
than having powerful and reliable software.
:58:41
But I think some of the people in
the Free Software camp...
:58:47
are a little scared by the commercialization.
:58:54
And uh, you know,
of course a rebel is put off by success.
:58:59
uh.. I think that commercialization is very important.