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Wrong title. Article says "free software" which makes much more sense than "open source" in title. On HN you should know the difference.
by dvh 8y ago
Wrong title. Article says "free software" which makes much more sense than "open source" in title. On HN you should know the difference.
- blockchaincloud 8y agoOn HN people also think real time software can be written in node.js ;) Most smart people on HN are silent mostly since it's been taken over by the Javascript horde.
- jsmeaton 8y agoThe software is "open source" not just "free software". The binary itself is not "open source".
- duckerude 8y agoThey're pretty much interchangeable in this title. Saying "open source" instead of "free software" preserves the meaning but makes it less ambiguous. The difference matters when you're talking about ideology, but it's not so important when you're talking about the legal status of a piece of software. The Open Source Definition was adapted from the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which the FSF approves of. According to gnu.org: "The two terms describe almost the same category of software" (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....).