Re: Kernel

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:27:25PM -0500, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
> the term free software implies that you are not paying anything. while
> that is true of open source software that is not the primary concern, in
> my opinion, it is that it is open for you to look at the source code and
> that implies that it is free. personally open is a better description
> then free.

Well, both terms have room for confusion.  Being able to look at the 
source code does not imply that it is free.  We have a large archive
in the non-free section containing source code that we can look at
but which is not free.

Richard Braakman