[IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

[Robert Withrow]

John and others seem to be making the argument that unless something is 
technologically similar to GCC (in the way it is distributed, developed, 
and coded) it can't be --- picking a term --- open source.  For example, 
Albert says that code has to be manageable by traditional SCM tools, 
patch tools, diff tools, editing tools, etc to be called source code.  
Different tools need not apply.

It seems to me to be a little narrow to define software freedom in terms 
of specific (traditional) development tools; in the same way that it 
seems narrow to define a vehicle as something powered by an animal that 
eats oats.

Isn't it enough for free software to be software that is free (both as 
in beer and speech)?  Or does it also have to be editable by Emacs?

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Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott, MA, USA