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Free software movement (view source)
Revision as of 16:59, December 18, 2009
, 16:59, December 18, 2009Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
Examples of free software are the [[Linux]] operating system and the [[Apache (software)|Apache]] web server, which this very site runs on.
Examples of free software are the [[Linux]] operating system and the [[Apache (software)|Apache]] web server, which this very site runs on.
==Free software and Open Source software==
Stallman wrote:
* The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, because only free software respects the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html]
==Links==
==Links==