On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:23:30 +0530, Rony
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> Could you please clarify what you are agreeing to and what are you
> opposing? In your earlier mail you try to make FOSS and OSS appear
> the same. The OSS and GNU links that you provided actually show that
> the two differ in allowing copyleft freedom. Now in the above mail
> you agree that they are different but FOSS - F = OSS. Well we all
> agree to that and thats what I said.
Thats incorrect, actually. FOSS is term that contains OSS, so
it is a superset of OSS. Think of it as a union of two overlapping
sets.
> When the OP has already acknowledged that the OSS license under
> which Scilab is released is not the accepted OSS license and you too
> agree that FOSS != OSS then what are you arguing about?
FOSS == Free or Open Source Software
== Free Software U Open Source Software.
scilab is not OSS, scilab is not FS, and thus scilab is also
not FOSS.
Frankly, I think most people will be hard put to come up with
concrete examples of software that is OSS but not FS or that is FS
but not OSS.
Any takers?
manoj
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