<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Zenwalker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shailesh.zenwalk@gmail.com">shailesh.zenwalk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">What Jonathan said is half correct, just saying Free software doesnt mean that its Open Source. For example, the nVidia drivers are free software but not open sourced.</div></blockquote><div>Distributable, binary only programmes are better called as Freeware and they are not Free Software. We Indians can easily call Free Software as Swathanthra Software.. <br>
I think we may not go with the confusions of English, when our language has a pretty good solution for it :)<br></div></div><br>Quoting more sentences from the article makes us enable to see the whole picture <br>" It's primarily because of free and open
software that <a id="KonaLink0" target="_new" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/J_Schwartz_CEO_Sun/articleshow/3504557.cms#"><font style="color: blue ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;" color="blue"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;">Internet</span></font></a> has grown to this size. Sun's Java and Sun Solaris
have played a key role in it. But free software may not necessarily be open
source software. Free software (as in free beer) may come with a zero price, but
may have its source code as closed. We are pushing for a world where all
software is both free and open
source.
"<br><br>That as a whole may give a wrong impression and if read the wrong way, it may remove the total concept of Freedom from the word free in Free and Open Source Software!<br>He could have been accurate by replacing "free software" with "freeware" . But he is refering to the famous slogan about Free Software -"Free Software is free as in free speech and not as in free beer" and so i dont think it came intentionally rather than becoming less accurate. <br>
<br>Moreover its like, There can be Open Source software which are not Free Software but i dont think the reverse exists.<br><br>Regards<br>Shyam K<br></div>