I have been using "open source" and "free software" products for some time. I want to contribute to them but I couldn't decide between "open source" and "free software". I would support "open source" at this level, because we can see what it is doing. I don't know how many of us can really see the things, but we have some issues in using "free software". Consider a "free software" web client (browser), it would comfortably send the confidential info to the person who programmed it that way.
Free Software has never any issues with allowing to see how the program works. It means that you can run, study, improve and distribute the program. The following is a good explanation between Free Software and Open Source, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html Cheers! _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
