Which Color of the Color TV is More Important?

[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei Hung for this link. ]

"Just saw this article and feel like sharing my 2 cents for those confused by this 'dispute.' As a long time FS advocate, I have also been asked quite a few times, 'What's the distinction between free software and open source?' To this question I had written an article: The dispute(?) between 'open' and 'free' back in 2001, in Chinese.

"First of all, it's not a dispute between software licenses by and large. This is clearly depicted in the software category diagram (which I contributed to FSF :-) ). I am not ashamed of admitting, after 10 years of FS advocacy, that I cannot give, and don't care to figure out, examples of FS which are not OSS, nor those of OSS which are not FS..."

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