On 01/26/2012 08:16 AM, விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM, kenneth gonsalves > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 19:29 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: >>> as RMS is visiting Chennai, we feel that organizers should be clear on >>> the >>> free software concepts, difference between free software and open >>> source >> >> there is a difference? >> > > Of course, there is. As most of the open source software are released with > some free software license as well, many people fail to understand the > difference. May be the term "FOSS" made it look like both are same.
In a nutshell, I think Free Software is inclined towards users -- their freedom whereas Open Source is inclined towards businesses, to make Free Software more acceptable for businesses who don't much care about user's freedom but want technical superiority of free software. I will be interested in knowing about the difference. Swapnil > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software > > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
