I think that GNU.org offers possibly the best explanation for open source stands for:
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer." An example of this is RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RHEL is a paid product because when you buy it, you're also buying a support package. RedHat still releases the source code for a vast majority of RHEL packages, making the CentOS project possible. If you'd rather not pay for RHEL, then feel free to run CentOS, which is upstream compatible with RHEL packages, but lacking in paid support. - Hal On 01/20/2010 04:04 PM, Sam Lummis wrote: > As Derick has said, OpenSource does in no way mean free. That's a > connotation uninformed people consistently derive about Open Source > Software. It's insulting that you'll insult a perfectly legitimate, > well meaning company without doing your research.
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