[OT] What is Open Source? (was Re: ANN: Twisted 0.16.0...)

[Paul Rubin]

huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:
> In any case, if I now take a poll on this list for the following question:
> 
> Do you think the set of "open source software" as defined by OSI and the set
> of "free software" as defined by FSF are 
> 1) the same set,
> 2) two different sets,
> 3) none of the above;
> 
> I'd expect a dozen different answers.  Oh, well.  :-)

The two sets of programs are basically the same (there are some minor
disjunctions)--the difference is in the philosophy expressed by the
two terms.  See the FSF article linked earlier for a discussion of the
difference.