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Richard stallman speaking abouth opensource
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Richard Stallman is a notable programmer whose major accomplishments include GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. GNU ? In 1985, he published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU.
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(1) is automatically free of charge (as in free beer);
(2) is inevitably open-source;
(3) is subject to no constraint of distribution (sharing, copying etc..);
(4) is open to "be viewed by the world" and open to "be criticised/praised by the world."
(hmmm... maybe i should have reversed the order of that list... but u ppl get it ;)) BTW, any comments most welcomed.
Of course there is still the dilemma of wether it is ethically correct or not
But i think, you can charge for (labour): installing/customising the software on a client's site. ?!?
(2) Mistaking the terms here.The original term is free(libre).Open was invented to "present it to businessmen".And now there's two movements-Free software movement and Open source movement.Each with different views.
(3) Yes
(4) That's inevitable, don't you think? But if you wanted to say "accepting feature requests", then not always, it's up to project leader. But most often yes. And you can "fork" it (using it as a base) if you don't like project leader's ideas (ie be a project leader to your own project).
People work on "Linus'" kernel (although maybe 1% is his code by now), and on Firefox (although they don't get paid, and Mozilla does).
In FS, probably noone get's paid, and it's fair that way XD
I think it's not just me but many graduates and professionals wonder how to earn a living from FSF/OS (every now and then there's smthing on SlashDot).
Some are not "compatible" with GPL, which is the oldest and most used one. GPL, although copyleft (you can change code), forces you to distribute product under GPL again (which makes sense if you think about it).
people who know about gpl can understand this
my opinion get serious get openbsd