Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: ESR, open source, etc.

Author:	Ben Matasar
Posted:	8/3/1999; 4:49:34 PM
Topic:	Microsoft response to Instant Messaging
Msg #:	9107 (In response to 9106)
Prev/Next:	9106 / 9108

Actually, this confusion (free beer, vs free speech, as the advocates say) is the reason why Open Source Software started as a term in the first place. Free software, as rms means it, is software that comes with the source.

The main ideological difference, as I see it, is that Open Source thinks of itself as a development process, and Free software thinks of itself as a movement. Otherwise, it's mostly the same thing.

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