[Ilugc] RMS meet at Chennai - training for organizers
- From: viky.nandha@xxxxxxxxx (விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar))
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:46:54 +0530
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM, kenneth gonsalves
<lawgon at thenilgiris.com>wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 19:29 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote:
as RMS is visiting Chennai, we feel that organizers should be clear on
the
free software concepts, difference between free software and open
source
there is a difference?
Of course, there is. As most of the open source software are released with
some free software license as well, many people fail to understand the
difference. May be the term "FOSS" made it look like both are same.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
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Vignesh Nandha Kumar
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