On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:35 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Of course, there is. As most of the open source software arereleased with
some free software license as well, many people fail to understandthe
difference. May be the term "FOSS" made it look like both are same.
In a nutshell, I think Free Software is inclined towards users --
their
freedom whereas Open Source is inclined towards businesses, to make
Free
Software more acceptable for businesses who don't much care about
user's
freedom but want technical superiority of free software.