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Warp2Search.net » News » March 2006 » Is Open Source and Free Software the Same?

Is Open Source and Free Software the Same?

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/29/2006 03:43 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 1338 views

Have you ever used the term open source and free software interchangeably? If yes, you are making a mistake. I find this quite annoying when people who call themselves GNU/Linux gurus doesn’t even know the differences between the two. Most of them consider them the same. Actually, Eric S. Raymond did an online survey with the two titles and found the following:

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