On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:27:25PM -0500, Adam Jacob Muller wrote: > the term free software implies that you are not paying anything. while > that is true of open source software that is not the primary concern, in > my opinion, it is that it is open for you to look at the source code and > that implies that it is free. personally open is a better description > then free.
Well, both terms have room for confusion. Being able to look at the source code does not imply that it is free. We have a large archive in the non-free section containing source code that we can look at but which is not free. Richard Braakman