Opensource & Free Software

A bit on Opensource, Free Software, Freeware

some links
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx

http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• opensource
• free
• software
• freeware
• shared
• source
• stallman
• richard
• code

[AppleSoldier]

doesn't this sound like software socialism? lol.

[mrbit10]

i sent you a pm

[LewisDre4m]

I'm currently using Ubuntu for my main machine now. The problem is software development is going to be slow when its a couple of guys in their bedrooms compared to a company with a million pound budget. I love open source and believe more and more open source software is the future.

[mrbit10]

what about apache, mysql, openAL, they move faster or as fast than their private competitor software? Apache is num 1 in its market, OpenAL, is not standard in Windows and OSX

[APPLETHEGREATUSA]

Pay apps are also needed.

[mrbit10]

that is just is opensource can also be pay, the whole point is that being free of charge does not equal opensource. You pay for OSX and a huge chunk of it is opensource.

[foxmuldr]

@LewisDre4m free software projects of massive scale have greatly surpassed the abilities of products from even mega corporations (like Apple and Microsoft) to produce great, free (libre) software alternatives. And this because those proprietary companies cannot compete with the 1000s of users who desire to donate their time on these projects to help others, not just to make money. Those libre projects are driven by the community, not the corporation, so they go where people want.

[xjih78]

@AppleSoldier you could not say that definitively, but if we disregard the abstractions, It's like the communist utopia which competes with the capitalist utopia (good vs evil) all over again, only this time it's in the realm of technology.

[maw88ify]

The idea of open source Apple took from Linux "MkLinux was the first attempt by Apple to support a free and open source software project." " Now OSX's whole kernel open source" based on ideas from Linux , BSD, and NeXTSTEP . I support Linux Mint, and the other 700 distributions of Linux that are free that both Apple and Microsoft took ideas from. Both Apple , and Microsoft use a mix of Open, and closed source software . opensource. apple. com ,and microsoft. com/opensource/

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa78815]

@AppleSoldier do you not like open source because your ashamed of the quality of your code?

[Tecseiryu]

What's a major difference between opensource and free software?

(Not free soft ware as in "free of charge.")

[hal970fx]

Many people who are suggesting that FOSS development is slow: watch?v=L2SED6sewRw

This video offers evidence that Linux is one of the fastest developed pieces of software on the planet.

[civilknowsbetter]

if you don't use open source you have no saying it it. sh-ut up.

[KnightChatX]

You can offer software free or Open Source and still be profitable.

[moniker127]

@AppleSoldier

Oh shizaduke! SOCIALISM! Like those dirty reds! Pinko commie bastards!

Oh shit. I just realized its 2010 now... like 30 years past the time that sort of thinking was the common propaganda.

Yeah, I like socialism.