The main difference between Free Software and Open Source is that Free Software requires you to use a free license on the derived work, and Open Source only gives you the right to do so.
Uh, not really. That's the difference between "strong copyleft" and "weak copyleft". For example, both the GPL (strong copyleft) and the BSD (weak copyleft) licenses are recognised both as Free (by the FSF) and Opensource (by the OSI).
Actually, are there any licenses that are Free but not Open or viceversa? I've heard that it's possible for a license to be in that situation, but I don't really know of any.
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The main difference between Free Software and Open Source is that Free Software requires you to use a free license on the derived work, and Open Source only gives you the right to do so.
Uh, not really. That's the difference between "strong copyleft" and "weak copyleft". For example, both the GPL (strong copyleft) and the BSD (weak copyleft) licenses are recognised both as Free (by the FSF) and Opensource (by the OSI).
Actually, are there any licenses that are Free but not Open or viceversa? I've heard that it's possible for a license to be in that situation, but I don't really know of any.
There was the same problem with "free software", and that might lead to confusion ("software libre" in spanish doesn't leave any doubts).
Perhaps "freedomware" could be used? There's also the term FLOSS.
makes it impossible to implement any kind of reasonable DRM
any kind of reasonable DRM
reasonable DRM
Oxymoron detected.
Uh... excuse me, but would you be so kind as to rephrase your statement? This time, if possible, in a language we can understand, please.
Getting money out of people using leverage you shouldn't have.
Typo fixed?
IIRC he was Corellian, but perhaps they do the opposite there: they measure time with distance units.
[...] to achieve the mind-altering speed of one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second.
Say what you want, but here in the continent I live a million billions is still a trillion, not a quintillion.
Somehow, I doubt Stephen Hawkins is one...
Until there is nobody else that disagrees and thus there is finally peace, amirite?
In other words, :s/can't/would soon cease to/
I wish I were a monkey, for this made me need to triple-facepalm but don't have enough hands.