On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:08 pm, you wrote:

Ranjith, I would not like to carry on this discussion... but I think your view is based on a misunderstanding.

One question: do you understand the difference between 'Open Source' and Free Software adequately?

Both Open Source and Free Software can be charged for. That is not the issue. ('Free' does not mean zero-cost, it means that the four-freedoms (to run, study, re-distribute and improve) and permitted.

The problem is, as Richard M Stallman puts it in a recent debate:

From rms@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 23:46:36 2003

You have missed the thread. OSS does not represent Open Souce Software. Please refer all related mails in the thread. You will get exact content of the discussion.

regards,

Anil, ATPS