On 7/17/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That is of course patently untrue. Free Software speaks about Freedom not price. Isipin mong Kalayaan at hindi Libre. Richard Stallman advocated these ideals more than a decade before the Open Source movement even formally existed. It is Open Source that takes these ideals and considers them to be the basis for a more efficient methodology of building software.
Funny, and all this talk about `Software Libre' that is supposed to replace the old terms falls flat on the floor. Then again, all of this is inspired from Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear ;)
In short, the Open Source camp cares only about these freedoms that you go on to list in so far as they produce better software than the proprietarian software mode of production. They just happen to coincide with the ideals which the Free Software/GNU people hold dear.
To be a bit precise, `proprietary software' is that software that can be legally modified and distributed by some authorized set of persons. Ergo, proprietary software _cannot_ be free software. On the other hand, `commercial software' are those software that is being sold and distributed by someone (an individual or a company) for the purpose of profit. Any free software can be also commercial, since the basic rights are granted, thru the appropriate license, to everyone who accepts the terms of such a license. As such, it allows those who _do_ accept those terms to provide support contracts/services to the software, as long as the basic freedoms are upheld. This is the very crux of the Open Source movement. Oh, and btw, IANAL, so those who are might find an EANAL there. :P -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
