Free Vs Open Source Software

Not all Open Source Software is free, and not all free software is open source.

Open Sourcing Software can be done not just for community, but for security or integration. A sure way to make your software well documented is to provide the source code so that those integrating with your system can see the limitations in the code itself.

SUSE Linux from Novell is one such product.

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[chrisxy123]

Speaking about "free software", but not mentioning how Richard Stallman defines "Free Software"? Not mentioning the GPL. BSD, WTFPL, etc?

Don't you find that a bit weak?

I checked the suse homepage and still it seems you are paying mainly for mail+phone support and access to (custom?) patches and fixes.

Yes, maybe a bit testing but as someone using Archlinux for quite some time I have not seen problems that an average system administrator couldn't have easily prevented for his users...

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@chrisxy123 That wasn't the point of this. If I talked about all those things my talk would have been 15 minutes not 4. this was "Why the two differ"

[renegade8164]

next video, OpenSUSE vs RedHat?

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@renegade8164 I don't use them the same way. SUSE is great for Enterprise where you want to lock machines down and minimize licensing. RedHat is more a Server Solution. It can be used for desktops, but It really shines in servers.  I use CentOS mostly which is very similar.

[chrisxy123]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom

Interesting question.

Why don't you answer it (and back it up?).

For example: In which countries am I allowed to compile mesa with --enable-texture-float?

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@chrisxy123 Other than china what country would you not have to pay the patent royalty?

[chrisxy123]

What is also confusing is that "Free Software" which uses patented stuff is of course still "Free Software". It's just that in some countries you cannot use it without paying somebody. Not for the software itself but for the patented stuff in it.

That maybe seems like nitpicking but there are definitely people who care about it. :)

[chrisxy123]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom

After sleeping about it I realize that it probably wasn't intentional that you didn't mention the word "Freeware" which would have been more appropriate than "free software" because that can be easily confused with "Free Software". :)

But when you want to make it short why not just say:

"Open Source software doesn't mean it cannot cost anything because it just means you need to also deliver the source every time you sell it."

[TheLifeLikePuppet]

A bit confusing but You said it very well :)

[chronofusion]

another excellently explained video Brandon. well done fellow geek. well done.

[renegade8164]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom I remember in school, we always used Fedora because because our linux teacher said that it was more likely that we would work with RedHat in the future (,RedHat according to him has the biggest market for huge businesses compare to Debian/OpenSUSE).

I've used both RedHat and OpenSUSE and I agree, SUSE is more meant for Enterprise, just by looking at the installation process lol. I personally can't stand SUSE, I hate the package manager YaST compare to yum, pacman and dpkg.