"Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the software is released under
GPL, does that make it any less Free
if the organization developing it is a commercial entity?
Not in the proper sense of the word free as in freedom that FOSS exemplifies.
But for a lot of people who think OSS is free software, it causes confusion.
Should I care
whether my healthcare is delivered by a Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,
Hindu, Muslim, or atheist doctor as long as the care is not at issue?
It depends on the person. Some people DO care, and they have the freedom to do
so. I personally do not care, but that is the way I think.
The Freedom in FOSS comes from the rights granted to the user by a
license such as the GPL, and is completely independent of the nature of
the organization developing it.
Tell that to those outside FOSS mailing lists. They do not have the wisdom to
know the difference? :-)
Nandalal
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:14 -0600, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
>
>
> "Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The trouble comes from using the word FREE (FOSS) in an increasingly
> commercial world of software.
>
> Maybe commercial users of FOSS should drop the word "Free" and call
> it OSST (open source software technologies).
>
> "Free as in beer" belonged to the last centuary...
>
> Nandalal
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