On Sunday 21 Jun 2009, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > > Free Software is called Open Source Software, FOSS, FLOSS, Libre > > software simply to remove any previous mis-understandings. > > Free Software movement believes that all software should be free > (freedom). Open Source movement aims for business acceptably,which > means that free and proprietary software should coexist. So they're > ideologically different movements.
Not completely true. The free software movement believes that software should be free for moral and ethical reasons. The open source movement believes that software should be free because the open source methodology results in better, more relevant software. They both agree to the ends, the only disagreement is between the reasons for achieving those ends. In all the years I've spent interacting with the OSI, I've yet to see an example of someone from OSI advocating proprietary software. As for licences, the list of licences considered free by the FSF (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/) and the list of licences considered open source by the OSI (http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) are more or less the same, so please don't mix up licensing issues into this discussion. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
