[Ilugc] difference between free and opensource software
- From: masivakumar@xxxxxxxxx (Ma Sivakumar)
- Date: Sun Aug 22 06:13:56 2010
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:28 AM, steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
This is a long answer, but I encourage you to read the entire thing
...slowly, to make sure you understand everything ...
To summarize, steve's explanation :
=== Free Software is the concept pioneered by Richard Stallman from
mid 1980s. To give users freedom to use, study, improve, modify and
distribute software with source code.
=== Open Source Software is a term coined by pragmatic people to make
the concept comfortable to businesses (to avoid free as in beer
connotation in Free Software).
Open Source Software gives room for compromise in Freedom. To
differentiate truly Free open source software from those which have
just source open, the term Shared Source is used.
Hope I got it right.
Best regards,
Ma Sivakumar
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