Re: [LUG] What is the purpose of free software ?

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/01/07, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know what you meant though.

I meant precisely what I said - that software should not be constricted by copyrights - so why be so anal as to correct me?

> The open-source development and distribution model, especially the
> GPL, work very nicely with the free software idea but are not the
> same thing.

So far, this is what Microsoft have failed to determine: they are
approaching an understanding of the open source development and
distribution model - they fail completely to understand the free
software community.

Many of their users, however, think that open-source means "written by communist university students" :)

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