On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM, balaji sivanath <starbala2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> hi, > > can anyone tell what is the actual difference between opensource and > free sofware.i came through documentation but i didnt get it in > crystal clear manner > Thanks Balaji for bringing this in. I am getting lots of queries on this and people have got confused with these terminologies. The following are my opinion and I am open to have a healthy debate and knowledge sharing on this topic. Open Source Software can be classified in to 2 categories: 1. FOSS ( Free Open Source Softwares) 2. COSS/POSS ( Commercial or Paid Open source software) COSS and POSS are my own definitions and I welcome any better alternates to this.(NON FOSS???) For example, Microsoft opens its Windows source code available FREE to anyone then it could be classified as FOSS. But if they decide to charge then it could be classified as POSS/COSS. I did not bring the License issue in to this discussion. Any thoughts in favour or otherwise? Thanks, Senthil kumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
