Gary Thornock
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:22:17 -0800
My position tends to be on the pragmatic side: use software that works. RMS wrote about the philosophical difference between Open Source and Free Software. In his view, Open Source is about the purely pragmatic notion of creating better software, while Free Software is about Freedom. If that's the case, then I lean more toward Open Source.
Of course, it's not just a two-sided discussion. Where Stallman has his "Free as in beer" vs. "Free as in speech" rhetoric, the BSD world has "Free as in free", and, of course, the commercial world has "Not free". For my own purposes, I use a variety of licenses. If I'm contributing to an established project, then, of course, the code falls under the existing license of the project. Were I to start an open source project of my own, I'd probably go with a BSD license, but I can easily imagine cases where I'd do commercial software, too. It depends on the project. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list