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

Hey guys, well its a nice discussion started by amit

well, i will go for open source, not free, because the
person who has put his time and brains to write the
software and other tools needs to be compensated
otherwise he will better make hammers

Raunak Maheshwari

--- amit gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
> 



		
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