read this:Stallman, speaking for the Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project.
>From its founding until the mid-1990s FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software. Since the mid- to late-1990's there are now many companies and individuals writing free software, so FSF's employees and volunteers mostly work on legal and structural issues for the free software community. (FSF), has criticized the motivation of the open source movement. According to him, the pragmatic focus of the movement distracts users from the central moral issues and the freedoms offered by free software, blurring the distinction with semi-free or wholly proprietary software. Stallman describes the free software and the open source movements as separate "political camps" within the same free-software community, however, and says: We disagree on the basic principles, but agree more or less on the practical recommendations. So we can and do work together on many specific projects. READ THIS TOO: The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, ``Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.'' For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution READ THIS TOO: Linus publicly states his disagreement with the free software movement's ideals. He developed non-free software in his job for many years (and said so to a large audience at a "Linux"World show), and publicly invites fellow developers of Linux, the kernel, to use non-free software to work on it with him. He goes even further, and rebukes people who suggest that engineers and scientists should consider social consequences of our technical work--rejecting the lessons society learned from the development of the atom bomb. REQUEST !!! Please do not call GNU/LINUX systems as linux!!! Else we will drift away from our own goal!! Support FSF not FLOSS if u talk about morals!!! Request to LFY --> Change urself to GNU/Linux For You If Newbeeies are told right thing they will think the right way!!! Change ILUGD to include GNU!! Thanks to all readers of this mail Nishant Bhardwaj links http://gnu.gjgt.sk/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html(search for word rebukes) on this page. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html(3rd para) http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Open%20source%20movement BYE!!!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
