Re: Open source - Free software

[spike1]

In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy, Why Tea <ytlim1@gmail.com> 
didnst hastily scribble thusly:
>>
>> How about this: Free software is a subset of open source software, so
>> all free software is open source.

> This doesn't sound right. I don't think neither one is the subset of
> the other.

> If freeware is a subset of Open Source, then all freeware is Open
> Source. That's clearly NOT the case, is it?

Freeware does not equal Free software.
Free in the Free software context is FREE, freedom, not free as in free of
cost. 
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