Re: Just wondering...

Julien Olivier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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Le mer 23/04/2003 à 05:15, Timothy R. Butler a écrit :
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> Do you guys (and gals) prefer the term Free Software or Open Source? 
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For me, Free Software means software with a GPL-like license. Software
that can me distributed and modified without any restriction.

Open Source means that you can read its code source. I know some people
tend to say that Open Source == Free Software but I'm not 100% sure it's
the case.

After all, if Microsoft shows Windows' source code to some "trusted"
clients, would that make Windows Open Source (and thus Free Software) ?

So, all in all, I prefer Free Software because it doesn't allow
misinterpretation.

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