On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 05:36 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2009 19:25:23 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Free Software is called Open Source Software, FOSS, FLOSS, Libre > > > software simply to remove any previous mis-understandings. > > > > Free Software movement believes that all software should be free > > (freedom). Open Source movement aims for business acceptably,which > > means that free and proprietary software should coexist. > > this is FUD. The definition of Open Source is here: > > http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd > > the difference between the FSM and OSM is that the FSM _restricts_ the rights > over software whereas the OSM does not. That is a mis interpritation of free software. Free software believes that freedom is for every one and freedom granted does not imply that you get permission to deny freedom to others. Open source allows people the freedom to deny freedom to others. For example GPL statutes that if you make changes to the free software code, you have the right to re-distribute the softwrae with change but also pas on the same rights or freedom to others who get that code. So free software means you *must* get the freedom but also respect the freedom of others. You will not deny freedom to share the software. So we beleive that every ones freedom is to be respected. I won't be allowed to take some free software and then making it "mine " or proprietory so to speak. But with many other licences other than GPL I will get the facility of not shareing with you what I got from some one who shared with me.
happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
