On Thursday 15 June 2006 05:40 pm, Rahul Bhalerao wrote:
On 6/15/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Therefore by implication commecial software cannot be open. Doubly wrong. Free / Libre software can beCommercial. Closed software can be non commercial (freeware).
Terminology confusion for me :)
"Free" was a bad choice for Libre software. "Opensource" was created to pander up to commercial interests who then cleverly used theterm to confuse and mislead. Further compounded by the likes of RH, Trolltech, and a host of other IT service companies using Libre software. Which made the GPL3 neccessary. But that is another story.
But all I can understand is they want to sell it, they want to secure their profits and thus they are hiding that code, thuogh its not required. BTW there can not be any support from opensource community for google's this stand.
You are absolutely right.