[dylug] open or free --->which one will u gor for ???

hi everyone 
i have been a passive member of this group for long...just reading
thru all the lovely discussions u ppl. have. ok neway its never too
late to start....this is a nice article i found on one of the forums
....
read and reply back with ur views
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The great divide: open or free?
-Posted by Dana Blankenhorn 

General
One of the great themes I've seen emerge has been a great divide on
what should be the chief priority of open source.

As we saw with Peter Brown, free is one priority. Tools should be free
because it's work and what is done with software that carries the
highest value. To continue paying for tools means continually paying
tolls to the past, and that's the slow boat to progress.

As the folks at Sun see it, the key word is open. So long as you get
the source code, so long as you can see how the program is made,
companies should be free to contract on other conditions. Even hammers
cost money, and those who make hammers need to be paid.

The free side sees complex software licenses as an enemy, binding each
algorithm to different conditions, making real progress impossible.

The open side calls the GPL the "most restrictive" possible license,
because it obligates you to offer what you make with GPL tools under
the GPL.

So the question for today is this. 

Which side are you on? Which is more important, free or open source?