Sunday, 18 September 2011

Week 8 - Response to Content

Whats the difference between Open software and Free software?

The term "free software" was coined by Richard Stallman, and is associated with the 'Free software oundation'. The term "open source" was coined by Eric Raymond and is advocated by him and other people at the 'Open source Initiative'. However, "Open software" and "Free software" are the same it just changed name to Open software to not cause any confusion about it being "free" and not cheap, that it is free and you can change the programming codes.

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