Hi,

On Thursday 13 April 2006 18:23, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) wrote:
> Hey glad that you brought this up.. Just watched Revolution OS this weekend
> + then I bought this Digit copy
> The fast track guide says pg 16. top -
> "Free software need not be open source"
> Is this true? I thought free = free to improve and distrib...
> Since this is from Digit, I don't take it on face value.

All free software is open source software. Here free refers to freedom, we are 
not talking of money.

Free software is a subset of open source software.

*Freeware* may not be open source. In case of freeware, we are talking of 
money

-Devendra Laulkar. 

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