[Fsf-friends] Help needed: Anyone from kotayam,kerala?

Harish Narayanan hnarayan@umich.edu
Wed Aug 20 11:41:30 IST 2003


Arun,

You could read the page 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for a 
clearer understanding of the relationship between the Free Software 
movement and Open Source movement.

Harish

arun wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vijay Kumar B." <ec10052@rect.ernet.in>
>To: <akumar@omnesysindia.com>
>Cc: <fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Help needed: Anyone from kotayam,kerala?
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>>Dear Arun,
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>>>Why not ? That is atleast far better than using totally propreitary
>>>systems which does not come with any source at all right ?
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>>according to the Open Source Definition and the definition of free software
>>given by the Free Software movement, both are one and the same. But its all
>>about what the people in each of these two movements say about the software.
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>same ? I gotta read the philosophy.hml again. I was under the impressions
>Open-source is a more loose-expression wheras Free would be anything
>that is GPLed..
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>arun
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