On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:30 PM, K.P. Senthil Kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Free Software means not necessarily to be an open source product. For
> example Adobe Reader is a free software (Proprietary to Adobe). When the
> same Adobe Reader source code is available to us for use, modify and re
> distribute then it is open source.
>
This is what happens when people forget history. Sometimes people ask me
"why are you telling this history
to a newbie? (to whom i'm introducing GNU/Linux) instead of just saying it
has no virus, less bug blah blah.."
Because then they will soon forget why Linux and other free software came
into existence and will start thinking
"why should i give it for free money(by then they would've forgotten about
free knowledge) when i worked for writing it?"
To quote George Santayana:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
--
*அகிலன்* (Akilan R)
(http://www.coding-aviator.blogspot.com)
*I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the
right to prefer hell.*
--Jean Rostand
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