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Re: Open source - Free software


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: Open source - Free software
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:59:22 +0200 (CEST)

      I have been using "open source" and "free software" products for
      some time. I want to contribute to them but I couldn't decide
      between "open source" and "free software". I would support "open
      source" at this level, because we can see what it is doing. I don't
      know how many of us can really see the things, but we have some
      issues in using "free software". Consider a "free software" web
      client (browser), it would comfortably send the confidential info
      to the person who programmed it that way.

   Free Software has never any issues with allowing to see how the
                                           ^^^^^^^^
                                        disallowing you
   program works. 

I hereby punish myself to use vi for an hour for not having consumed
proper amounts of caffine before posting.




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