[Ilugc] difference between free and opensource software
- From: akilan27@xxxxxxxxx (Akilan R)
- Date: Sat Aug 21 23:09:56 2010
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:30 PM, K.P. Senthil Kumar <sekumar123@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Free Software means not necessarily to be an open source product. For
example Adobe Reader is a free software (Proprietary to Adobe). When the
same Adobe Reader source code is available to us for use, modify and re
distribute then it is open source.
This is what happens when people forget history. Sometimes people ask me
"why are you telling this history
to a newbie? (to whom i'm introducing GNU/Linux) instead of just saying it
has no virus, less bug blah blah.."
Because then they will soon forget why Linux and other free software came
into existence and will start thinking
"why should i give it for free money(by then they would've forgotten about
free knowledge) when i worked for writing it?"
To quote George Santayana:
?Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.?
--
*??????* (Akilan R)
(
http://www.coding-aviator.blogspot.com)
*I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the
right to prefer hell.*
--Jean Rostand
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