The people, not profits!
As the OpenSouce Initiative pointed out when it was founded
The real reason for the re-labeling [free-software to open-source] is a marketing one. We're trying to pitch our concept to the corporate world now. We have a winning product, but our positioning, in the past, has been awful. The term free software has a load of fatal baggage; to a businessperson, it's too redolent of fanaticism and flakiness and strident anti-commercialism.
Mainstream corporate CEOs and CTOs will never buy free software, manifestos and clenched fists and all. But if we take the very same tradition, the same people, and the same free-software licenses and change the label to open source - that, they'll buy.
Coders of the world, unite!
- The GPL 2.0 isn’t just code; it’s a declaration of freedom.
- It ensuring software serves public interest, not private profit.
- The GPL 2.0 guards our rights, preventing privatization of your work. Shareable, modifiable, and revolutionary—embrace liberty in every line of code.
- GPL 2.0 embodies the defiance against proprietary dictates, anchoring a movement of shared code—free from the clutches of corporate greed.
- The enduring power of GPL 2.0 lies in its simplicity and strength. It stands as a bulwark against profiteers, promising perpetuity in free software.
Educate, agitate, organize!
- GPL 3.0 fortifies the movement against digital dictatorship, updating defenses to protect freedoms in the face of new technological threats.
- With GPL 3.0, community rights are enshrined above the selfish needs of developers, blocking Tivoization and patent aggression.
- With GPL 3.0, we amplify the collective voice, ensuring cooperation triumphs over competition—a digital future for all, not the few, as long as somebody somewhere actually puts the time an energy into creating the code we all need.
- GPL 3.0 championing a future driven by collective genius - unchained from control of the developer that actually makes the software.
- Under GPL 3.0, technology stands liberated—unowned, unrestricted, and unyielding. Solidarity is encoded in every shared byte.
