[Discussioni] Siti PA e formati "commerciali"

[Andrea Capriotti]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Marco Ermini wrote:

> > Direi che "formato proprietario" va benissimo, "formato commerciale"
> > io non lo capisco cosa significa.
> 
> Non lo capisco nemmeno io, ipotizzo: il PDF e' stato creato dall'Abode ed e'
> commerciale, pero' e' un formato "aperto" e non "proprietario". Boh?!?

Da http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial

"Please don't use ``commercial'' as a synonym for ``non-free''. That 
confuses two entirely different issues. 
A program is commercial if it is developed as a business activity. A
commercial program can be free or non-free, depending on its license.
Likewise, a program developed by a school or an individual can be free or
non-free, depending on its license. The two questions, what sort of entity
developed the program and what freedom its users have, are independent. 
In the first decade of the Free Software Movement, free software packages
were almost always noncommercial; the components of the GNU/Linux
operating system were developed by individuals or by nonprofit
organizations such as the FSF and universities. But in the 90s, free
commercial software started to appear. 
Free commercial software is a contribution to our community, so we should
encourage it. But people who think that ``commercial'' means ``non-free''
are likely to assume the idea is self-contradictory, and reject it based
on a misunderstanding. Let's be careful not to use the word ``commercial''
in that way."

In pratica, come appunto si diceva, non si dovrebbe utilizzare il termine
"commerciale" ma "proprietario".

Saluti

Andrea Capriotti