On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:28 AM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a long answer, but I encourage you to read the entire thing > ...slowly, to make sure you understand everything ... >
To summarize, steve's explanation : === Free Software is the concept pioneered by Richard Stallman from mid 1980s. To give users freedom to use, study, improve, modify and distribute software with source code. === Open Source Software is a term coined by pragmatic people to make the concept comfortable to businesses (to avoid free as in beer connotation in Free Software). Open Source Software gives room for compromise in Freedom. To differentiate truly Free open source software from those which have just source open, the term Shared Source is used. Hope I got it right. Best regards, Ma Sivakumar கணிப்பொருள் - http://kaniporul.blogspot.com/ தமிழில் ஐலக்சி - http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc.tamil _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
