On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:35 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > > 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. > >
that is not the difference. Python, Postgresql, django, apache and thousands of other software are aimed at businesses? And all that GPL'd stuff that runs on windows are not aimed at business??? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
