Free Software Versus Open Source Software
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| Overall, the two ideas are remarkably similar. The branding is
| slightly different, as is the focus. Free Software advocates
| believe that freedom equates to value, while Open Source
| advocates believe that freedom leads to value. Both, however,
| agree that software freedom is very important.
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=706208&rl=1
Detailed and long article.
Availability of source code is an interesting debate, but open standards is
another. Free standards are not open standards. For example, OpenXML is not
a free standard. It has associated licensing costs. It's also not entirely
open because it's incomplete.
Related:
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
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