Tahir Hashmi writes:
There seems to be a little misunderstanding about Free Software and Open Source in your statements. GPL'ed software is also Open Source.
I agree Open Source is a superset of free software. But it does weaken the philosophy of free software. Many non-gpl licenses (which are open source licenses) do not require you to submit changes back to the community (which led to the M$ FUD that GPL is viral).
IMHO, there should be a parallel of Free Software in standards also, wherein, it is required that anyone who extends a standard and uses it to communicate with 3rd parties must publish the full specification of the extensions.
Yes that should be the case. But that isn't the case so many times.
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