On Saturday 15 April 2006 05:33 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Agreed but according to Larry Augustin, Eric Raymond the term Open > Source was invented to prevent people from associating "Free > Software" with adjectives like "cheap", "worthless", "shoddy". They > largely attribute the creation of the term to Christine Peterson.
Hmm. Afair ERS promoted the term to make it palatable to bussiness and drew a lot of flak from coders. In any case the term does defocus the political issues and is grossly misused nowadays. > > > Seems you misunderstood what I wrote. The "> $0" means it can be > given away free of cost or at any price that the developers see > fit. I did understand correctly, but was pointing out that not just Open Source but also gpld software can be sold cause gpl != open source. I also understand that your understanding is substantially correct but many others on the list may not be so fortunate. Hence the cribbing. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
