Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Scilab Workshop

On 18-Feb-07, at 11:37 AM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

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All the other distros consider themselves Linux. Time you guys got real and respected the opinions of others.

    You are revising history here a bit.  The OSS folks did not

want to change the basic philosophy as much as market it to the suits better. Indeed, the open source definition started off as a close of the DFSG -- but the word "Free" was removed to make it more palatable to the business people.

    They were careful to not actually change the requisite

freedoms. And, really, I think most people do not consider hte software covered by the terms as distinct -- same software, different terms used by people to describe it, albeit with slightly different philosophical goals.

i would say the major difference is the absence of copyleft in OSS