Thursday, January 28, 2010

Re: [CURIOUSITY] am i using

chika.tambun 写道:
> closed source text editor when i used to use vim?!
>
> this is happen when i give my opinion on a gnu/linux distro for
> requesting the full-vim package rather than mini one on the next
> release the distro, then they talk about freedom rather than the power
> of functionality.
>

POSIX only defines that a standard vi must exists in a POSIX-compliant
system. So developers have freedom to choose any version of vi to fit
into their distribution.

open-source software != free-as-in-freedom software.

Vim is open-source, but it is not free-as-in-freedom software.

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