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.