On May 17, 2:04 pm, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear FOSSouls, > > As we all know, popularity of any open source product over its > non-free counterpart is a big achievement for us. There has been an > unending trend of such products being acquired by non-free software > companies. > > First we try open source, then we advocate for them and after sometime > we discourage their use because some non-free software company like > Oracle has now converted the very nature of that product from open > source/ open standard to proprietary. > > We saw MySQL, Skype and now the next target can be VLC or even firefox. > > Are we here to first love and then hate? Should I tell this to my VLC > installation that my love for it is till the point of its existence as > FOSS? Seems you are confused between Freeware(but closed source) and open source.Open Source is not about price, its about freedom to fork and distribute[1].
[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > -- > Mohit Singh > ------------------ -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
