[fsug-calicut] Re: OSS and Free Software (reply to Ranjith)
- From: PostgreSQL Server <eiidp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: fsug-calicut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:41:52 +0530
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:08 pm, you wrote:
> Ranjith, I would not like to carry on this discussion... but I think your
> view is based on a misunderstanding.
>
> One question: do you understand the difference between 'Open Source' and
> Free Software adequately?
>
> Both Open Source and Free Software can be charged for. That is not the
> issue. ('Free' does not mean zero-cost, it means that the four-freedoms
> (to run, study, re-distribute and improve) and permitted.
>
> The problem is, as Richard M Stallman puts it in a recent debate:
>
> From rms@xxxxxxx Tue Jan 21 23:46:36 2003
>
You have missed the thread. OSS does not represent Open Souce Software.
Please refer all related mails in the thread. You will get exact content of
the discussion.
regards,
Anil, ATPS
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