[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Dinesh Joshi]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:40, Rishi wrote:
> It was only that day, I realized
> - Free and Open Source software were quite different
> - The word 'free' in Free software was about freedom and not price
>
> So in my case the ideology happened after 5 years of using the
> software. :-)

In essence, Free software and Open Source software mean the same thing. 
"Open source" is just used to market "Free software". How you 
misunderstood "Free" Software to be free in cost terms, many would 
misunderstand. Hence the term Open source was coined.

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Dinesh A. Joshi