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Free as in Freedom
Free software
- Simple definition.
- Ambiguity: freedom / price in english.
- Explicit:
- Free as in Free speech, not Free beer
- Free as in Freedom
Open Source software
- Less simple definition.
- No ambiguity.
- Not explicit: the availability of source code is not sufficient.
- Richard M. Stallman, Free as in Freedom : http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/.
- Open Sources: Voices of the Open Source Revolution - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html.
