-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26 Sep 2006 22:58:00 -0700, Why Tea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How about this: Free software is a subset of open source software, so >> all free software is open source. > > This doesn't sound right. I don't think neither one is the subset of > the other. > > If freeware is a subset of Open Source, then all freeware is Open > Source. That's clearly NOT the case, is it? >
"freeware" and "Free Software" are not the same thing. Free Software refers to (mostly) GPL stuff. (See the FSF for details) that's all Open Source, as well as "Free Sosftware" freeware, is just the usual "try our stuff before you buy" thing. A whole different kettle of fish. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFGhxed90bcYOAWPYRAh8QAJ0VFre8sj5MYtsOrHQcNbSSBS43jQCgwJth riE9I/BROxoIOOJVuqSn4yI= =bE9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock This isn't hell. This is where you get sent when you've been bad in hell. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
