Comments on: Freeware, Free and Open Source Software are not Same

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:54:37 +0000

Very much useful article, many people have this misconception about Open source and freewares.

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:12:39 +0000

Really nice post, this will definitely clear doubts of people who think both the softwares are the same. Stumbled.

By: ajay

ajay — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:14:15 +0000

@ Siddharth
It depends upon the software vendor. How they want to distribute their software as free or under some free software license.
it can GNU or any other type of license. Linux and VLC Player both are free but both are different.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:18 +0000

thx for this
but I think ur concept of free software is wrong
free software can also be licensed under EULA or GNU
EULA does not allows modification

By: Rohit

Rohit — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:57:46 +0000

Thanks for this informative article.
I too didn’t knew much about it.

By: Ramesh | The Geek Stuff

Ramesh | The Geek Stuff — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:27:08 +0000

Ideally this should be pretty obvious for lot of people. Thanks for putting this nicely together. Well written. Ramesh The Geek Stuff