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Free Software or Open Source? You Choose

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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“Free software” or “open source”? It's a perennial question that has provoked a thousand flame wars. Normally, the factions supporting each label and its associated theoretical baggage manage to work alongside each other for the collective good with only a minimal amount of friction. But occasionally, the sparks begin to fly, and tempers rise. I think we're in for another bout of this particular fever.

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Comments (4)

dinotrac ·
My way or the highway. Yawn.

Personally, I don't use the term "Open Source" to describe free software any more, even though most of my free software activity has been in corporate environment. I call it free software, or free software in business, because Open Source turns out be really cr@ppy marketing, which is what you'd expect from the geeks who cooked it up.

Businesses end up taking advantage of "freeness" more than of "Open Sourceness".
theboomboomcars ·
Well dino, isn't every thing on the interwebs binary?
dinotrac ·
boomboom --

Boo boo!! Hiss hiss!!!
Steven_Rosenber ·
Free is always good, open source is better because its portable and generally not as broken.

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