On Dec 5, 2007 7:57 PM, Legatus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/5/07, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've found that a lot of people who aren't terribly interested in the > > open-source community treat "public domain", "freeware", "shareware", > > and "open source" as synonyms. > > > > Some of them are astonished at the idea that they aren't synonyms, and > > a bit disbelieving. > > > > I run into this everyday. There are numerous government departmental manuals > that discourage the use of most of the FOSS software products, because they > don't differentiate between these. I find it funny, especially since a > significant number of public domain software products have started in > government. Strangely the admin types get it, and the developers don't. The > very people who would lose their mind if their code were misappropriated by > someone else, don't get the difference between FOSS, PD, freeware, and > shareware. They figure it is free, so they can do whatever they want with > it. > -- > JD Runyan
I have this mental grouping: * FOSS * PD, freeware * shareware Is there a difference between a codebase that is "public domain" vs. a codebase that is "freeware"? -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
